Jesse Marsch

This was all a new experience.

I think that there's...

Now that they've got that in their back pocket and they kind of understand how to handle the hype and all the attention around it and that really the biggest, most important thing is the focus on the actual match, along with Copa America success that we had two years ago, along with the fact that we have a lot of players playing at big clubs and playing in Champions League every week, I think means that their overall understanding and expectation for what big games are and how to handle them is different.

And so, of course, a home World Cup is still a massive experience.

It's something that they're all really excited about.

But I think that it's lessened the overall pressure and nervousness of what the experience will be.

And that's allowed us all to really laser in on, again, like,

okay, here's the opponent.

Here's what it's going to require to beat them.

Here's what we have to be good at.

Focus on how we want to play, who we want to be.

And by the way, we're a pretty good team.

So I think we've climbed the FIFA rankings.

We haven't lost many matches in the last two years.

We don't give away many shots.

We don't give away many goals.

This team has grown into something that I think was difficult for any opponent.

And that's really, if you want to talk about it, our main goal is to make sure that

We are very hard to play against.

We give hell to every single opponent and we know that we have some firepower.