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I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.

We need foreign skills to stay competitive.

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

We are training as hard as all athletes in other countries.

You hear all the time about European players playing the game. These players that come over at 17, 18 and 19, they just don't all of a sudden become skilled. From the time they were little fellas, they learned the fundamentals of the game. Let them create.

Most of us have had that experience - at around puberty - of realising that, despite whatever efforts we put into our chosen sports, we will become at best competent.

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.

My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

Trust in the great American ingenuity. We can derive more intelligent, more brain-friendly ways we can play football.

Some guys practice like all-Americans but they can't play!