LA Galaxy's Johnny Nelson on Playing with Pulisic/Tommy, Banishment by STL City & Winning MLS Cup

Sam's Army

Samuel Army

Soccer, Sports

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Sam and Tyler chat with Johnny Nelson about playing with Pulisic, Adams (et al) and sleeping next to Tommy McGunner with USYNT, getting drafted by FC Dallas, being banished at St Louis City as a result of acrimonious contract negotiations, and bouncing right back to win MLS Cup with LA Galaxy

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0:00.0	The All right, welcome back to another Sam's Army bonus episode, where this week, my exceptionally quaffed partner in crime, Tyler Terrans.
0:39.1	We've been set up on a blind date this week by Tommy McCabe, of all people,
0:44.5	with his one-time roommate and newly crowned MLS Cup champion Johnny Nelson of the LA Galaxy.
0:52.2	Johnny, thank you for joining us.
0:53.7	How are you doing today?
0:55.3	Yeah, no, thanks for having me. Doing well, still recovering from the party celebrations,
0:59.9	but obviously all worth it. We notice you were drinking water immediately before jumping on.
1:06.3	So yeah, I feel like we saw that coming. In fact, you know, give us a one to ten on where the hangover is right now.
1:15.2	It's definitely come down a bit, so it's still lingering, but like a two or three.
1:20.1	It's low, but it was better than it was, whatever, Sunday, Monday.
1:23.8	Sunday was rough.
1:26.6	We're going to get back into Sunday and Monday soon enough.
1:30.7	But for the moment, let's give people a little sort of backstory here.
1:35.4	I'm Johnny Nelson, who you are, where you came from, how you got here.
1:38.9	So as we teased before, you and Tommy go way back.
1:42.6	You guys played together for years in the U.S. national team
1:46.5	you set up. Then you played for a couple years at UNC. You got drafted by Dallas in 2019,
1:53.9	played for a few MLS teams in the intervening years. And then that culminated in this year,
2:00.0	in the season with L.A LA Galaxy and run MLS Cup.
2:03.1	Now, back to your national team experience and relationship with Tommy.
2:07.1	What were some of the highlights from that?
2:09.4	I know you went to the 2015, I believe, U-17 World Cup in Chile.
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