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When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.

You need to have a big squad; it's important when you're in the Champions League, with the amount of games we've got.

People have to pay a lot of money to play soccer here.

We never had a huge squad and we never had a great deal of choice. But in many ways that helps because you've got to make do with what you've got. You don't have too many problems about picking the team you just hope that everyone turns up on the day.

We played soccer a lot with our friends and at school. We weren't on an official team or anything, but we'd definitely be up for it in gym or in after-school pickup games where we live.

I like to play small clubs.

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

I think there are a lot of things that soccer does in the communities that transcend the soccer field.

I love soccer; I want to be on the field.

I've seen the growth of this game in this country, the stadiums that were built, the great European players that have come and the great American players who've been created. Americans want to be number one at everything. And they are at baseball, football, basketball. Soccer is growing fast, and I want to be a part of that.