Everyone knows soccer is a grueling sport. You have to be physically fit. You can't do that in two weeks or in a month. It takes time to get back to running up and down the field and getting your lungs opened up and building back stamina and fitness.

We'll have to pick on Dallas now.

It's definitely the way you want to start a season.

It's definitely for the strong.

Everyone was just getting the kinks out, and it was fun to back with the guys. I think everyone feels the same way, just coming here and kicking the ball around and laughing at each other.

I don't think it is a really big change for me. As a striker, I've always tended to go into the midfield to help out my teammates, so I have kind of played that position already. Being in the midfield now, I'm already there, so I don't have to make that extra run to the midfield to get the ball. I always have loved the ball, and in midfield I get the ball a lot.