Our goal is to be competitive. If you can hang with them, you can be competitive. All of them are winnable if we play soccer that we know how to play.

The level of athleticism and discipline they bring, you can't put a value on it. There's something to be said about them. They understand the hard work that goes into it.

The largest thing is the team cohesion. Working as a team, not as 11 players.

Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.

The scariest thing for non-Jewish Americans in talking about Palestinian self-determination is the fear of being or sounding anti-Semitic. The people of Israel are suffering, and Jewish people have a long history of oppression. We still have some responsibility for that, but I think it’s important to draw a firm distinction between the policies of Israel, as a state, and Jewish people. That's kind of a no-brainer, but there is very strong pressure to conflate the two.

She really opened our family's eyes to the situation. It's something people here aren't paying enough attention to.