Colin Cowherd & Landon Donovan react to World Cup Draw: Mexico & Germany Aren’t Scary, Brazil Is Wildly Talented
The Colin Cowherd Podcast
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🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Colin is joined by U.S. Men's soccer legend Landon Donovan and host of the “Unfiltered Soccer” podcast with Tim Howard to preview the 2026 World Cup.
They preview Group A led by Mexico, and Landon explains why Mexico doesn’t feature the top flight talent of past teams and why other teams won’t fear Mexico (00:45).
They move to Group B led by Canada, and discuss the strength of the group relative to the US’s Group D and the potential of soccer power Italy qualifying for the group (2:30).
They start with Brazil’s Group C and discuss the strength of Brazil’s team relative to the past and why they’ve been playing below expectations recently, and Landon warns that Morocco shouldn’t be counted out (5:00).
Finally, they preview Germany’s Group E and they highlight Germany being an older team that doesn’t scare anyone, but should still win the group (6:30).
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| 0:00.0 | The Volume. |
| 0:02.0 | Today's World Cup Draw Reaction is presented by Haleon, the maker of Advil, Centrum, Tums, |
| 0:08.0 | Sensadine, and Voltaren. |
| 0:10.0 | They've teamed up with U.S. soccer for the assist, a campaign celebrating all the moments |
| 0:15.0 | of support that make the big goals possible, because every goal starts with an assist. |
| 0:19.0 | In the history of the every goal starts with an assist. |
| 0:33.6 | In the history of the United States men's national team, the man you're looking at has the most goals and most assists in the history of our country. |
| 0:36.5 | And we have ourselves a World Cup. |
| 0:40.1 | Let's go to Group A. Now, I'm less familiar going forward, but it's Mexico, South Africa, South Korea, and a European playoff winner. My take on Mexico |
| 0:46.0 | is, and I noticed this over the last two years, I think they had regressed. I felt like when the |
| 0:52.8 | Americans played Mexico, I thought they lacked a certain level of skill. |
| 0:58.8 | I felt from the previous half decade, has Mexico in the last 12 calendar months? |
| 1:06.5 | Are they back on track or are they still? |
| 1:10.3 | I don't feel they're quite what they were. |
| 1:13.6 | Mexico used to scare you, right? |
| 1:15.6 | And I'm talking big teams in the world would really hate to play against Mexico. |
| 1:21.7 | There are not many teams in this tournament who would fear playing against Mexico, even in Mexico. |
| 1:27.2 | And the reality is, Colin, |
| 1:29.0 | they just don't, you talked about the U.S. roster and all of the places these are. They don't |
| 1:33.1 | have the talent. They don't have the talent. And Christian, like Christian Polisic is the best player |
| 1:38.2 | in the Italian league, which is a statement that's wild to say. But he is. Mexico doesn't have anyone near that level. They don't. And so when people are frustrated, and in Mexico, I follow it because I revel in this. When they are, when they're below par and they're not playing well, I love it and I revel in it. But the reality is they just don't have the horses. And you can be good at all the things, whatever. |
| 2:01.9 | Soccer is such a unique sport. |
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