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Men In Blazers
"greg bergholtz" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"Presented by Bud Light with Hercules Gomez. They very we absolutely love deficit one. And a genuinely giddy about the development of this project with her and producer one Castro, run it back this week and they will deliver episode two. Look for it on our pod feed on Thursday, and as for that pep into view, kind of feeling, you're gonna love what he had to say about our hero Tim ream. The king of America, subscribe to our YouTube, make sure you don't miss it, it's amazing. Can't wait to check that out. Can you kick us off today with a tourist? I can't devote technical one but after 6 years of supporting men in blazes, I adore it, you know, everyone who's read reborn in the USA knows that I looked on and a bud bottle. Oh, just with joy, not that one, that one's got my face on it, but a normal bud bottle. And look confident from afar. It's like a Beacon of the United States to make. And trials had loved when I came here, the bud was the brand that when you watch football and the growth of football, Budweiser was the Sapporo football support the U.S. women's national team support the U.S. men's national team from the very beginning. Watch the 94 World Cup and it's impossible. To fail to see what a muscle Budweiser as a sponsor has been for the grief of the game in the United States. And the good news is, and how's the bush a step it up? Their investment in the game in the U.S. with the World Cup coming. But they've also moved everything in football, start with the U.S. women's team and the men's team to Bud Light home of the mighty spuds Mackenzie, and that is why we are riding with Bud Light right now. It is very, very meaningful to us. I want to say in this moment because but have vastly expanded their support of men in blazers in the process, which will allow us to do more to hire more producers to put more of our sub optimality in your ears. And in that spirit, I want to raise my third first Bud Light at the day to Cristiano Ronaldo, who in scenes, his team dropped to second in the Saudi pro league davo and he stormed off the field, down the tunnel, kicked over a ton of water bottles and went Berserk, essentially did what it says on the tin after failing to school, losing the game, and hearing fans chant messy, messy, messy at him in the closing stages. I mean, dude goes all the bloody way to Saudi Arabia and still can't escape Lionel's shadow and when others team a clip, one nil by Al itty had in the Saudi pro league, the defeat Mark, the second match in a row, which is 38 year old Ronaldo failed to score a meeting. He didn't rip his shirt off in anger and I will say it's incredible to witness humanly, a gent decline with such a lack of self awareness and humility. I thought it was just me. That ended up just our days in that frame of mind. Saudi league, though Devo, telling it a must watch for all the wrong reasons. Rod and Bud Light excellent, you're one of the first things that I discovered when I moved here for the first time. Bud Light introduced 1982. It's got its own history as well, roger. Okay, to the football, Fulham, nil, arsenal, three, the league leaders storm, fortress cottage and deliver an emphatic victory in this London Derby three first half goals, all assisted by Belgian new boy Leandro trossard and finished by Gabrielle number one, Gabriel number two, that's Gabby Martinelli and Martin odegaard. They do the business and as if they're afternoon couldn't have got any better, Gabriel number three, Gabrielle Jesus, return to the field for the first time since a World Cup injury that required knee surgery wonderful to see him return. Arsenal, look as potent as ever and retain their 5 point lead atop the table. I should say that Gabriel number four my godson Gabriel is a massive fallen fan was in the stands weeping at every single arsenal goal. God, that feel good buzz of achievable dreams is back for arsenal. They rolled it off four straight. Some of them hot stopping winds, but the massive news was not that Gabrielle Jesus back on the bench. For the first time since the World Cup no, it's about another G day though because Greg berhalter was at the game but knows why in what capacity why do you think he was there David? Well it can't have been anything to do with the football. So maybe the fashion, move the kicks to see the kick, see what see what who's at KSI, see what he's wearing? I don't know. See how many cheese there are in the word gunners. And the reality was he and everybody there. I love that fortress cottage. Saw a coronation march of a game Fulham under the cosh for the very beginning, saka, tempting to torment our boy Anthony Robinson, turned a Martinelli cross into his own neck, but Anthony Robinson knew it was offside. That's why Ian filled the kind of finishing the U.S. needs of its number 9, Jedi got it all while his show Greg bergholtz was nothing to do right now with the U.S. men's national team. Oh, I may be your goal screwing solution full of now. Honestly, seems shattered throughout the suspended collinear, that midfielder was overrun, Fulham lost all four of the games in which he's been absent this season by no doubt worried in the medium turbo all those Liverpool paulinia rumors and were mitrovic, no goals in what 9 games now looking emasculated, the reprieve was for butter moment within three minutes. Gabrielle right off a corner with Ben Wright screening Leno one nil and it would soon be two full length of the field for players in 1112 touches on the second was like a 99 yard kick return
ESPN FC
"greg bergholtz" Discussed on ESPN FC
"About some quick hits instead? The United States men's national team, the U.S. M and T are out of the World Cup losing to Holland. Jules, have we been underestimating Louis Van Halen being a little bit unkind to him? This was the best performance for sure, but before that, let's be honest here, it was not great. It was called dreck. Dreck was Drake. Drake is a word that's like something. Yes, it's a German word, and it's a germ for something that generally might rhyme with, say, wood might. If you see where I'm going with that. Not sure. But anyway, this was their best performance. They were far more mature far more experienced than the Americans, I think, including on both benches. They had the proper plan, which was to basically just play it in the channels, hardly anything if you look at the passing map, went through the middle, it was all from the wingbacks to mem phase two gap co and then the wingbacks were heavily involved. There's a goal from one with the assist from the other wing by. There's a goal from the other impact with the assets from the first one. And that worked really well. And you know what? I think they're going to do exactly the same against Argentina. So bypassing that midfield by going wide into the channels and that could well work again. There may be a situation where we may be tempted to put somebody like montel, for example, to counter that. But by the way, shout out to my man Denzel, don't freeze. Right. He's the tournament guy, right? So 5. No, no, but I'm saying I did a big tournament. And when they went back to the hotel, you see that video when as usual, the stuff of the hotel is clapping music. And then at the end, I was there with his phone like your grandad wedding. So good. So by the way, where was Anthony Robinson on the third goal? Yeah, that's the thing. Americans players, please, can you learn how to mark players? How to follow players with an end up on their own in the box because this is not on. This is not good. Come on. No, at this level. No, not good. Sticking with the USA, Greg bergholtz, contract is now up. Gabby, Casey Keller, who knows him really well with a French suggested I'm in maybe tempted by club football in Europe and my gnostic with the national team. What do you think? What do you think it would go or what it would do? I to be perfectly honest. I think if you talk about club football in Europe, if you're thinking a team in the big 5 leagues, I don't know that there are teams are going to and there's still a lot of prejudice against American coaches. Yeah. I don't think they're going to look at this and be like, oh, look, the guy who got the rest of the round in 16 and I lost a Holland. I'm going to go for one of my own. I think there's still a definite prejudice. Jesse marsh, different situation. He'd coached, you know, he was an assistant at Leipzig. He coached the champion zig with Salzburg. I don't think that this is the road for him. Personally, I think he should stay. I think the U.S. soccer federation me too would be mad to lose him at this stage. But it's been a conversation in the U.S.. Again, I don't watch the same here. I don't watch the coverage there. But a lot of people were so gung Ho about Holland. A lot of people picked the U.S. to go deep into the tournament. And a lot of not so much the typical U.S. soccer fan who's generally more realistic, but you know when you get a tournament, all these people jump on the bandwagon. And they're all like, oh, look, woody screw up. They should have beaten Holland, they should have gone to semifinals or whatever. And guys, we need to temper expectations here. We need to look at what he has to work with. We did the youngest team in the World Cup. Exactly. For them. And we saw that in that game against Holland, which was a step too high for them. France beat Poland three one, Jules, you were there. Was this ever really in doubt? Well, it was shaking the first half. I think they were nervous. I was nervous. That sequence was a three shots on gold. Come on. We love him. We love you. And you're doing great with Napoli, but why is he just using power and literally hitting your race? It looks like dodgeball and he had to be able to hit on your race instead of like, I don't know, maybe trying to place it where there was no good keeper, no defender. Are you a little bit more concerned rather than we can mock the landscape in the finishing there, but should we maybe take issue with the fact that they had those three chances, one after the other? Yeah, it was on the same move, but yeah, I don't know what would have happened if pulling the score then. Because France control game without being amazing before that. And then she always called before the break, lovely assist by Kylian, jiro's record, blah, blah, blah. And then Kylie and it was the masterclass in the second half. So I still think this is a front steam with issues. I think it's a front seam that yes has Killian in a similar way that Argentina have Messi, which is not just the answer. But I guess you take that and you move on. Mister tacker is talking me through the second goal. One where he's I didn't think he was going to shoot from there. I thought he was going to curl it. I thought he was going to curl it or I thought he was going to take it forward and try to beat somebody or do something. And I thought, wow, what a finish. Yeah. It's not something we see that often from his arsenal. In terms of I feel like a lot of them are different sorts of finishes, side foots or ones where he places it. This is just leathers it. Yeah, but he's been doing it more lately because I think everybody expects that color that it does so well that he does on the third goal, for example. The one you learned from insignia. And I think Cheney is expecting that one on that goal and instead it catches him a little bit by surprise by heating it with his laces so hard kind of in the other corner if you want to in the other side. And I think he's great. He's on such great form. 5 goals already in this competition. He wants that Golden Boot. He said it before to get it. He will have to be England in the quarterfinals though. I'm talking about strikers, Gabby, Poland's gold came from the spot via Robert Lewandowski in
ESPN FC
"greg bergholtz" Discussed on ESPN FC
"Called this team <Speech_Music_Male> soft <Speech_Male> and then blamed it on their <Speech_Male> manager Greg. Birthday, yeah. <Speech_Music_Male> <Speech_Music_Male> Add that to it. <Speech_Music_Male> Yeah, <Speech_Music_Male> I think I addressed it. <Speech_Music_Male> You know, <Speech_Male> that's a ship. <Speech_Male> That's a performance. <Speech_Male> That's character. That's <Speech_Male> personality. <Speech_Male> That <Speech_Male> goes for Greg bergholtz with two. <Speech_Male> Greg <Speech_Male> berhalter has been a lot of <Speech_Male> things during World Cup qualifying <Speech_Male> and beyond. <Speech_Male> The process of how <Speech_Male> they hired him, <Speech_Male> the 13 months, not <Speech_Male> with the team. There was an <Speech_Male> interim, the time lost. <Speech_Male> Neither of those <Speech_Male> things on him. <Speech_Music_Male> <Speech_Male> You could take the <Speech_Male> job, take the job, my man. <Speech_Male> So yes, it is on him, <Speech_Male> okay? No, I mean, <Speech_Male> you can't say that, <Speech_Male> oh, he didn't work for <Speech_Male> 13 months, so I'm going to count that <Speech_Male> against him. <Speech_Male> I don't care <Speech_Male> if he's with Columbus crew. <Speech_Male> That's not <Speech_Male> the fam. And neither here nor <Speech_Male> there. Let me <Speech_Male> get what I want to say, <Speech_Male> okay? <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> This team has shown <Speech_Male> me something different. <Speech_Male> And that includes Greg <Speech_Male> berhalter, the <Speech_Male> personality, <Speech_Male> the character, <Speech_Male> the intensity. <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> How they compete, <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> they've <Speech_Male> not been soft in this <Speech_Male> World Cup. That is for <Speech_Male> sure. Yeah, no doubt. 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Men In Blazers
"greg bergholtz" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"To that World Cup and that World Cup cycle, like actual games of importance, actual World Cup qualifying. You had guys like Connor Casey, Jeff Cunningham. You guys like Brian ching. Eddie Johnson, all types of names, Charlie Davies. Ahead of me, Robbie Finley came out of nowhere, you know? Edson buttle came out of nowhere. A guy who just narrowly missed out from being invited was Chris Wanda lasky who came out of nowhere. So things like this are common and you go back through the history of U.S. men's national team and guys come out of nowhere and making it and the player. I don't want to say turn over, but the churning of those rosters as you put it. And it tends to happen, but this has been pretty consistent in that sense. Let's start as you've just shoved this into it at the top with the number 9 configuration. Straight in, all the torque going to these two games, P fock, three goals, two assists. In the Bundesliga for top of the table, union Berlin, I can't think of an international team of our caliber who would be gifted one of the top scorers in a top 5 European league and leave out that player. It is 356 miles from Berlin to cologne by Google Maps. How do you understand why he's not in camp for these two games? I don't. I don't understand it. The main objective of a number 9 because he's a true 9 is to put the ball in the back of the net. You know, all the other things you can add intricacies of playing in the final third and combining and bringing players in and being effective in the way your team presses and being effective in your movements, et cetera. Like that's all fine. And it's great to make other players around you better. But if you're a 9 and you put the ball on the back of the net. And in a cycle where you've seen players. Frankly, when you've seen players like Josh sergeant go cold, you've seen Ricardo pepy go cold. You've seen him convert Jesus feda into a 9. You've seen other 9s given opportunities and have gone cold. Well, here's a guy who's not gone cold. Ever. Like under Greg berhalter, he became the first 9 U.S. men's national team eligible 9 to win a goal scoring title in Europe. The very first. He's 26 years old right now. He's got a couple years if that under the U.S. men's national team. He's only played 9 games for the U.S. men's national team. And if you look at the opportunities or lack thereof that he's received from Greg burr halter, he's played a grand total of a 139 minutes in World Cup qualifying. He started two games in total for Greg berhalter. One of those games World Cup qualifying and it was a very difficult game in Nashville where it was frustrating for everybody versus a Canadian side that Hardman just ate for halter's lunch. In Nashville, and he was part of that. That was when his lone star and World Cup qualifying. That was half of his starting opportunities that has received for the U.S. men's national team and the way this player is harshly judged and it's not just for a halter, many, many fans to this date will bring up well, there's that terrible miss in the Aztec versus Mexico. Yeah, there is a terrible miss. Do you know how many great forwards have missed terribly? It happens all the time. Now, if you're going to judge a player by a 6 second screenshot of his life, it just seems very harsh to me. What about judging him for his long goal for the U.S. men's national team? Coming on as a sub in the semifinal of the cock caffe Nations League versus Honduras, John Brooks ball over the top gets redirected and who comes in and scores. It's Jordan P 5. They're not winning. Nations League over Mexico in dramatic fashion, if not for that goal, that Jordan peacock score. So it's tough as a 9 X 9 myself to see a guy who's just scoring goals and that's all he can do to defend himself and still not be in contention. It's a hard pill to swallow and imagine how he feels. And it's a very weird, almost surreal reality. We U.S. fans have dreamed about having a U.S. player who can score goals at the highest level. It's totally confounding to me that we now have one and he's not even encamped Derek ray tweeting about how German analysts are already talking about how well P fock could play by a Munich and there is an argument in the truss Greg faction will say Pete fock is not a striker that fits Greg system. What does that mean when we say Greg bergholtz system P fock doesn't fit it? Well, first of all, let's hear that from Greg berhalter, right? Because we've heard everything from which is the kiss of death when I'm about to tell you. We know what this said player can do. We want to bring in somebody else. We know what this player is about. That is the kiss of death. That was the last thing I remember hearing about John Brooks and you know how that went for him. So let's wait for Greg brew hall to actually say that. Like it's a system thing. He doesn't fit my system until he says that I refuse to believe that. Because a 9 fits any system, a goal scoring 9 can fit any system. Or we'll have a place on your roster at least at some facet in the game, or some situation in a tournament. That said, Greg berhalter expects his 9 to be about movement in the interpretation of space and how he can make those around him better. The combination play and the movement to make players that Christian Pulisic better to make a bread in areas in Giovanni Reina to make a Timothy waya. Those players around him stronger. That's what Greg berhalter looks and the way that player can press. The way that player can dictate how the defensive structure starts. That would be my estimation of Greg ber halder's expectations of his 9. But the most important thing for a 9 is to score goals is to be confident. And that's what this kid does. I've talked a lot about this, Greg's obsession with Greg system to me is the greatest blind spot of his tenure. He had some experience at club level, not a huge amount. But it has all been at the club level, and international football tactically is so different to club football. It's really a hot mess. The players just don't have the same time together to fuse into a true machine to really gel. It's much more, there's much more space, it's much more open, it's much more defensive, it's much more about the intangibles and about simplicity and please don't want me talking about how Spain 2000 template because I love the U.S. men, but we are not Spain 2010. And when Greg was asked about P four, he said, we're pretty confident we know Jordan's profile. We know what he can do. And yeah, we've had a lot of people tweeting us one of them at guy, this guy to just P Fox going to be going.
ESPN FC
"greg bergholtz" Discussed on ESPN FC
"Had already happened. There were about three or four big time scouts that said there's going to be 30, 40, maybe 50 Christian politics in Europe within the next 5 to 6 years. American youth who then go over to develop in the actual like top shelf training programs. Yes. And playing at a high level, right? Not just training, but playing and contributing. And I said this publicly and a lot of people disagree. Well, this year it refurbished because there's 41 players. Contributing in the top 5 or 6 leads of Europe. Think of that. That's a huge number. And it is the difference. Yeah, it makes a massive difference. Because we talked about what we have said before, though. And I'm not stepping on Anthony Taylor said there, but there are things that are controllable in international football. You're basically your atmosphere, your facilities, what you do when you get your players together, how you utilize the windows. But there are also other things that are not controlled, but Greg bergholtz are can't control at what level is players played could play out. There was a big constant conversation. Only less than a decade ago. With the head coach, his players, the media, and the soccer intelligentsia and America as to where is best for our players to be playing. That was a debate. That's a bit is no longer happening. Right. So that is definite progress. But we've always said it is important that your players are paying as high or as decent to level as they possibly can be. That their injury free and they're available. Those are just key things. And for the most part, for the most part, bear hall has been able to, you know, with rejigging it here and there where he hasn't had players for the most part he's had that luxury, which other managers haven't. Yeah, I do wonder all the time we talk about MLS and obviously it was important for this country in the development of players to have a thriving domestic league. What we have come to find out over the last ten to 15 years or so is that it has been equally or more important for the rest of Concacaf. MLS has become a very important league for this entire part of the world. Canada, Central America. Well, whatever you may think of the league and understandably of the league and the watchability of the league and all those things. It is a professional league of a good level in which these players can come and be paid and play a professionally in professional surroundings with very, very good facilities in most cases. That is huge and that raises the level for everyone there is the level for U.S. players in the academies that then go abroad to Europe. So that's the thing is that the U.S. realized that they had been caught up to by many of these other countries or at least the gap had really narrowed an MLS, I think, had a lot to do with that. So it was a soccer Trojan horse. So in the last several years, so in the last several years, I think they've really understood from a national team perspective. Okay, to rebuild that buffer zone between us and our competition, we've got to get guys playing at big clubs in Europe. A technical development of Brendan ironson, Georgia, Georgian and mostly happened in Germany, but Brendan aronson at the union, the union academy. Those things you can't FC Dallas as well. Oh my goodness. Yeah, you can't underestimate the importance of that and we sent off our players and they've come back as almost, if not fully formed professionals and they have been integrated into the U.S. squad and the team is better for it with the caveats that we've already had where it is still not something that we've cracked this old Concacaf qualifying. We don't have it down pat yet. Here's my other question. In terms of what has changed from that night to tonight. How many times would you say in the days following the loss to Trinidad in 2017, we played this sound effect? Right? The whole idea of that was whenever we found ourselves being arrogant. We shocked ourselves. We had to check ourselves back. We had to stop being arrogant. That word was probably uttered more in the weeks following that loss than any other word. Arrogance. American arrogance. Who do we think we are? Has that changed? I don't think it has. No. I don't think it has. And I think tonight is evidence of that. That the U.S. just qualified for a World Cup and people are disappointed because it didn't look as pretty as they wanted it to. That's arrogance. I'm sorry, people could say all they want were humble now. We were humbled. We're not as argument as we were. It still in us to feel that way. Whatever it is that happened at the last qualifying cycle, that humbling didn't only lasted so far. Now this team is out here filled with players who are thriving in Europe and we believe we should be kicking everybody's ass, and it should be beautiful. It should be four nails against everyone when it's Mexico. Okay, dosa Sara will do. Like, that's still the feeling I think among a lot of fans in this country. So I would contend for all of the hand wringing that we're too arrogant that went on four and a half years ago. That dissipated fast. The arrogance is still, to me, what it was that the day before that game happened. And you know, we're going to get called arrogance by other people who are listening to the podcast listeners who are not American just based on the fact of your accent. You do realize that though as well. There is a general perception that we also, I think it was Michael Goodman tweeted, we also in this country and I'm not sure that this is quite arrogance, but there's a view of sport, right? We are dominance is celebrated. To 11, I don't think you have the real existential debates that we have back in Ireland and the UK are both Manchester City. They've won X amount of titles in the last XM over the years. Is this good for the game? I don't think that happens. When the bulls are dominating or when the Lakers were dominating, the Yankees dominating. There is a love and an expectance of a good team to be a dominant team in U.S. sports. And that has transported itself into the soccer fandom into the soccer ether. Have unwittingly brought that with them. And I don't think that's possible. Certainly not an international football. So I don't know if that's arrogance. And certainly not in a country whose domestic league is barely old enough to drink. You know, MLS is not MLS is a baby in comparison with other soccer leagues around this country. It's not, this is not a traditional soccer nation. Yeah, I know that there's a history. The U.S. open cup dates back generations upon generations and the U.S. beat England in a World Cup. I understand all that, but let's be honest. It's not ingrained in the history. It's starting to be. And this new up and coming generation is, but I think, you know, as important as we've talked about MLS being being a place for other cocky aff nations to send their top pros and as a place for us to create pros that we sent to Europe, you know, I think that the league is fledgling. Like you said, it's barely old enough to drink. But I don't want a car, I should say. A rental car. Yeah, but I still think you know that we can produce players and have a soccer culture in this without them. And we do. And we do it. Without the league being at that level. But I'm just saying for the people who expect us to dominate, like it's still growing pains are still a part of this..
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"greg bergholtz" Discussed on Caught Offside
"Had already happened. There were about three or four big time scouts that said there's going to be 30, 40, maybe 50 Christian politics in Europe within the next 5 to 6 years. American youth who then go over to develop in the actual like top shelf training programs. Yes. And playing at a high level, right? Not just training, but playing and contributing. And I said this publicly and a lot of people disagree. Well, this year it refurbished because there's 41 players. Contributing in the top 5 or 6 leads of Europe. Think of that. That's a huge number. And it is the difference. Yeah, it makes a massive difference. Because we talked about what we have said before, though. And I'm not stepping on Anthony Taylor said there, but there are things that are controllable in international football. You're basically your atmosphere, your facilities, what you do when you get your players together, how you utilize the windows. But there are also other things that are not controlled, but Greg bergholtz are can't control at what level is players played could play out. There was a big constant conversation. Only less than a decade ago. With the head coach, his players, the media, and the soccer intelligentsia and America as to where is best for our players to be playing. That was a debate. That's a bit is no longer happening. Right. So that is definite progress. But we've always said it is important that your players are paying as high or as decent to level as they possibly can be. That their injury free and they're available. Those are just key things. And for the most part, for the most part, bear hall has been able to, you know, with rejigging it here and there where he hasn't had players for the most part he's had that luxury, which other managers haven't. Yeah, I do wonder all the time we talk about MLS and obviously it was important for this country in the development of players to have a thriving domestic league. What we have come to find out over the last ten to 15 years or so is that it has been equally or more important for the rest of Concacaf. MLS has become a very important league for this entire part of the world. Canada, Central America. Well, whatever you may think of the league and understandably of the league and the watchability of the league and all those things. It is a professional league of a good level in which these players can come and be paid and play a professionally in professional surroundings with very, very good facilities in most cases. That is huge and that raises the level for everyone there is the level for U.S. players in the academies that then go abroad to Europe. So that's the thing is that the U.S. realized that they had been caught up to by many of these other countries or at least the gap had really narrowed an MLS, I think, had a lot to do with that. So it was a soccer Trojan horse. So in the last several years, so in the last several years, I think they've really understood from a national team perspective. Okay, to rebuild that buffer zone between us and our competition, we've got to get guys playing at big clubs in Europe. A technical development of Brendan ironson, Georgia, Georgian and mostly happened in Germany, but Brendan aronson at the union, the union academy. Those things you can't FC Dallas as well. Oh my goodness. Yeah, you can't underestimate the importance of that and we sent off our players and they've come back as almost, if not fully formed professionals and they have been integrated into the U.S. squad and the team is better for it with the caveats that we've already had where it is still not something that we've cracked this old Concacaf qualifying. We don't have it down pat yet. Here's my other question. In terms of what has changed from that night to tonight. How many times would you say in the days following the loss to Trinidad in 2017, we played this sound effect? Right? The whole idea of that was whenever we found ourselves being arrogant. We shocked ourselves. We had to check ourselves back. We had to stop being arrogant. That word was probably uttered more in the weeks following that loss than any other word. Arrogance. American arrogance. Who do we think we are? Has that changed? I don't think it has. No. I don't think it has. And I think tonight is evidence of that. That the U.S. just qualified for a World Cup and people are disappointed because it didn't look as pretty as they wanted it to. That's arrogance. I'm sorry, people could say all they want were humble now. We were humbled. We're not as argument as we were. It still in us to feel that way. Whatever it is that happened at the last qualifying cycle, that humbling didn't only lasted so far. Now this team is out here filled with players who are thriving in Europe and we believe we should be kicking everybody's ass, and it should be beautiful. It should be four nails against everyone when it's Mexico. Okay, dosa Sara will do. Like, that's still the feeling I think among a lot of fans in this country. So I would contend for all of the hand wringing that we're too arrogant that went on four and a half years ago. That dissipated fast. The arrogance is still, to me, what it was that the day before that game happened. And you know, we're going to get called arrogance by other people who are listening to the podcast listeners who are not American just based on the fact of your accent. You do realize that though as well. There is a general perception that we also, I think it was Michael Goodman tweeted, we also in this country and I'm not sure that this is quite arrogance, but there's a view of sport, right? We are dominance is celebrated. To 11, I don't think you have the real existential debates that we have back in Ireland and the UK are both Manchester City. They've won X amount of titles in the last XM over the years. Is this good for the game? I don't think that happens. When the bulls are dominating or when the Lakers were dominating, the Yankees dominating. There is a love and an expectance of a good team to be a dominant team in U.S. sports. And that has transported itself into the soccer fandom into the soccer ether. Have unwittingly brought that with them. And I don't think that's possible. Certainly not an international football. So I don't know if that's arrogance. And certainly not in a country whose domestic league is barely old enough to drink. You know, MLS is not MLS is a baby in comparison with other soccer leagues around this country. It's not, this is not a traditional soccer nation. Yeah, I know that there's a history. The U.S. open cup dates back generations upon generations and the U.S. beat England in a World Cup. I understand all that, but let's be honest. It's not ingrained in the history. It's starting to be. And this new up and coming generation is, but I think, you know, as important as we've talked about MLS being being a place for other cocky aff nations to send their top pros and as a place for us to create pros that we sent to Europe, you know, I think that the league is fledgling. Like you said, it's barely old enough to drink. But I don't want a car, I should say. A rental car. Yeah, but I still think you know that we can produce players and have a soccer culture in this without them. And we do. And we do it. Without the league being at that level. But I'm just saying for the people who expect us to dominate, like it's still growing pains are still a part of this..