Sam Gregory

And yeah, it's definitely a changing world.

And I think the effect of other sports seeping into what we can do in soccer.

So we've learned so much from baseball, from basketball, from these other sports that have really led the way for soccer analytics.

I'm actually Canadian originally.

When you said a boat, I kind of thought that.

Come on.

But yeah, I mean, soccer was a big part of it.

I grew up playing the sport, love the sport.

And when the opportunity came up to do my master's in London, it was my master's in economics.

So not really related to what I'm doing now.

But I always wanted to try living over there, see if I could get the opportunity.

And it worked out perfectly.

US Soccer did call first, yeah.

Okay.

But I think it's a really exciting organization.

We have a lot of resources behind what we're doing, not just around the World Cup, but today's actually an exciting day in the history of US Soccer, which might not be as well-known to your listeners, but we're opening a new training facility today.

So today is the opening.

There was a ribbon cutting, I think, two or three hours ago.

OK.

About an hour outside of Atlanta.