Jesse Marsh
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Well, the trickiest part is they're not with us all the time, right?
They're with their professional clubs.
And so they're all aware of the fitness plans that we have for them, the tactical and technical plans that we have for them.
They're also all competing for end of the year trophies, you know, and some of them to keep in a league so they don't get relegated, some of them to achieve Champions League.
The MLS guys are just getting their season going.
every player has a little bit different scenario in a different situation.
And I've been having a lot of daily conversations with a lot of them about how to manage their situation where they're at, you know, how we feel about what we want to get out of them in March, when we want to start to see them in May.
So, you know, there's been a lot of conversations going on, but, you know, I,
I don't want, you can't have players stressing too much about injuries, about form, about fitness.
They need to be able to go about their daily routines and make sure they're maximizing what they're getting out of every day.
And then certainly once we get together, we're going to get them fit, we're going to get them strong and clear, and we're going to get them ready to fly.
Yeah, well, that's what we've done is we've invested this these last three and a half months entirely into getting to know Qatar and Switzerland to the nth degree.
So, you know what these guys are having for breakfast.
what things they like on the pitch, what things they don't, talking to coaches they've had, talking to teammates that they've had, and trying to really get to the core of what to expect from these two teams and the players in these teams and the coaches.
And then it'll be about making the shift after March to whoever we see next.
Italy, Wales, Bosnia, and Northern Ireland are the four that are competing to play us in that game in Toronto on June 12th.
And so obviously there's been a lot of talk about Italy being that team.
They're the highest-seeded team in that group to come through.