Hey there, welcome to Food Ball with Grant Wall.

Thanks so much for joining me.

We've got a special episode today in partnership with MetalLark and Levitard and Friends.

With reaction from Landon Donovan, Chris Wittingham, and me to the U.S. men's national teams,

scoreless tie at El Salvador in the World Cup qualifying opener.

Landon is in San Diego, where he coaches San Diego loyal, Chris is in South Florida.

I am in El Salvador for just a couple more hours.

Guys, it's great to see you.

How are you?

Good morning.

Good morning, doing all right, Grant.

Excited to do this.

I am going on 90 minutes sleep after working most of the night, so any apologies I'll get

out of the way right now.

But lost to talk about, even though it was a scoreless tie and let's dive right in with

you Landon, what were your sort of top line thoughts watching that qualifier?

Yeah, it looked like a typical away qualifier, especially early in a cycle.

You could tell from the El Salvador perspective, they were still a belief that they can qualify

for a World Cup.

I kind of always chop these qualifiers up into games and the timing of the games when

the teams like El Salvador still believe.

You don't know early on, they might be a team that can contend and qualify versus sometimes

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