Julien Laurens

What is it with this squad of US main national team players?

How do you feel in that group?

How do you feel the group is?

It's a young group, it's a young squad with a lot of players playing a bit everywhere.

Is it difficult or you've been together for quite a while now?

I guess the question then is expectation.

What is the expectation for a young squad like this, a home World Cup?

The Americans aim quite high usually in every sport because they're so used to winning in everything.

Do you feel that pressure a bit?

Talk to me a bit about Poch and your relationship with him and you think the relationship of the squad and the work that he's done, because it hasn't been always easy for him there.

So, yeah.

He talked a lot about that mentality that you mentioned and how he and you guys need to change that.

You felt it as well for you coming from Europe as well to play that?

The objective, I guess, coming out of the group, that's a given, really, and it's a decent group for you, and then it's game by game, but it's almost another competition that starts, right?

You know, when we were kids and we're growing up, right, and we're playing, and it's all about the Champions League and the music, right?

And the World Cup and wearing that shirt and the national anthem and whatever you do.

That's you, bro.

This is like Real Madrid on Tuesday in the Champions League, the music, the Benabeu, Kylian, blah, blah, blah.

And then in four or five months' time, it will be that.

It's one of those dreams, right, that we have when we grow up.