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But the problem with coaching is that it is a full-time job. By that I mean for at least 40 weeks in a year you have to be with the player, either travelling or training. Right now I don't want to do that.

In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside out, you have a discipline over them.

When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

In international football, you need pace and you need your players up top to create things out of nothing and run at people.

Really, coaching is simplicity. It's getting players to play better than they think that they can.

If you play the same club every week of every month, it's kind of boring. It's great that you can play one night in Brazil and one night in Japan, one night in Europe, and see the world. It's amazing what you see if you travel around the world.

The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together.

Football is pretty much played 16 times a year, where training is kind of a year-round thing.

I'm a little skeptical of foreign coaches in our league and in U.S. Soccer just because of how different our league is and our players are than other players around the world.