Matt Besler

They could have done like a 12, 4, and 8.

Mexico, Canada, U.S., all three host countries should have just played.

I don't know the reason for that.

I just thought it was weird.

Yeah, no, and I also, I mean, I think playing early in the tournament is also nice, too.

Like, you know, they have all the different groups, and if you're in a later group...

I mean, your first game isn't until, you know, probably six or seven days after the tournament starts.

It's a little bit like the Olympics, right, where it's kind of like tiered.

You know, sometimes in the Olympics, your event isn't until, you know, 14 days into the Olympics, which I don't know as a player.

I would just want to play, right?

Like the World Cup starts, like I want to get into it as quickly as possible.

I don't think the other – and I'm talking about like the big countries, right?

The countries that we're going to have to beat if we want to eventually win a World Cup.

I don't think the big countries fear us, and that's where we need to get to.

That's sort of the problem right now.

I do think they respect us.

I think they respect – when they play an American team, they know that the team's going to be unified and we're going to fight for every ball and we're going to be physical and

Endurance-wise, we're going to work hard.

So I think that we've earned that respect over the course of a number of years.

I also think, too, the narrative is starting to change.