Landon Donovan

And we'll touch on the roster building of the Gold Cup, but you talked about the country being behind the team and the fans being behind the team. What makes it different about playing a World Cup on your home soil? Is there more pressure with that? Do the players recognize how important that is to play at home during a World Cup?

And we'll touch on the roster building of the Gold Cup, but you talked about the country being behind the team and the fans being behind the team. What makes it different about playing a World Cup on your home soil? Is there more pressure with that? Do the players recognize how important that is to play at home during a World Cup?

You talked about after the Nations League, you talked about wanting to fight for your country, for your flag. And then now you touched on prioritizing and how the big players always need to prioritize the national team. You've not been in a job a long time. Is that something that surprised you early on that...

You talked about after the Nations League, you talked about wanting to fight for your country, for your flag. And then now you touched on prioritizing and how the big players always need to prioritize the national team. You've not been in a job a long time. Is that something that surprised you early on that...

You talked about after the Nations League, you talked about wanting to fight for your country, for your flag. And then now you touched on prioritizing and how the big players always need to prioritize the national team. You've not been in a job a long time. Is that something that surprised you early on that...

you're so used to big players picking their national team as a priority, and yet it seems as if sometimes some of our players aren't necessarily seeing it as that priority. Is that something that surprised you?

you're so used to big players picking their national team as a priority, and yet it seems as if sometimes some of our players aren't necessarily seeing it as that priority. Is that something that surprised you?

you're so used to big players picking their national team as a priority, and yet it seems as if sometimes some of our players aren't necessarily seeing it as that priority. Is that something that surprised you?

So we talk about medium and long-term planning or goals. Does it obstruct you in any way trying to build toward next summer, not having potentially a bulk of your team together as you start to push through the Gold Cup, use that competition as a kind of a precursor to the World Cup? With no World Cup qualifying, which everyone talks about, is a huge issue.

So we talk about medium and long-term planning or goals. Does it obstruct you in any way trying to build toward next summer, not having potentially a bulk of your team together as you start to push through the Gold Cup, use that competition as a kind of a precursor to the World Cup? With no World Cup qualifying, which everyone talks about, is a huge issue.

So we talk about medium and long-term planning or goals. Does it obstruct you in any way trying to build toward next summer, not having potentially a bulk of your team together as you start to push through the Gold Cup, use that competition as a kind of a precursor to the World Cup? With no World Cup qualifying, which everyone talks about, is a huge issue.

Does your staff and yourself see that as a problem?

Does your staff and yourself see that as a problem?

Does your staff and yourself see that as a problem?

You've talked about MLS and it being a strong league. How important is it to you that your players are playing? Because I think we see around some of the players who are in Europe maybe not playing the same amount of minutes.

You've talked about MLS and it being a strong league. How important is it to you that your players are playing? Because I think we see around some of the players who are in Europe maybe not playing the same amount of minutes.

You've talked about MLS and it being a strong league. How important is it to you that your players are playing? Because I think we see around some of the players who are in Europe maybe not playing the same amount of minutes.

As it goes into the next year in terms of selection and certainly for the World Cup, I would imagine it's vitally important to you that your players are playing big minutes, whether it's in MLS or not. Exactly.

As it goes into the next year in terms of selection and certainly for the World Cup, I would imagine it's vitally important to you that your players are playing big minutes, whether it's in MLS or not. Exactly.

As it goes into the next year in terms of selection and certainly for the World Cup, I would imagine it's vitally important to you that your players are playing big minutes, whether it's in MLS or not. Exactly.