Jason McIntyre

To me, there's nothing more exciting.

These kids would have dreamed of this opportunity and thought it was far-fetched.

Like, we're not going to play in a home World Cup.

That's never going to come around.

And here we are.

They'll recognize the responsibility and the opportunity, and they're going to seize it, man.

I'm sure of that.

You did reference two upcoming friendly scrimmages, whatever you want to call them.

I'm just curious, like, that's so close to the World Cup.

A turned ankle, anything, puts a lot in jeopardy.

Talk me through the run-up matches you guys had in the week before your World Cup.

How dare you introduce any kind of... No, but you're right.

I get nervous thinking about this stuff.

But you're right.

And that actually, I'm glad you brought that up because for those guys who didn't make the roster, right?

You got to still be locked in because to your point, all it takes is a little bit of a knock, an injury, something, God forbid, any of that happens.

But if that is the case, well, then a player is going to get replaced and your opportunity is going to suddenly appear.

And are you ready for it?

But these games are important because now that the roster is finalized,

My hope is that, well, one, we get a result from one of these two games, as I mentioned before, to give this team confidence and momentum going into the tournament.