Nate Bukaty

is not a proper soccer nation.

Because if you were a player from Argentina and you got called into your national team and you said, I don't want to go because I'm tired, even if it was true, they'd be like, you're never coming back to the national team again.

Like, this is the greatest honor that you could have.

And he got dragged for it.

And I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but he had to hear that.

And he had to hear it from a lot of the former players, you know, the former USA players who all have podcasts now and stuff like that.

And they're doing a documentary about Pulisic, and his dad goes on the documentary, and he talks trash to the former players and is like, well, Landon Donovan did this and that.

You know, he didn't play this time.

And then it turns into a war of words, and people are like, oh, your dad's now sticking up for you when this happens?

That doesn't look good.

And I think he's just kind of over that stuff.

You know what I mean?

He's just tired of it.

And I get it.

Honestly, I understand why he's tired of it.

But that makes me like...

God, that's a shame.

You know, I would sure like to see him coming into this tournament going, we got the World Cup on home soil.

Only time in my lifetime that's ever going to happen.

I'm in my prime.