Carlos Bocanegra

But one of the things that I think I'm kind of really excited about is that the glass ceiling has kind of been broken a little bit.

Meaning that when you go back to 2018 and you think about kind of the age and the day of, you know, from Tim Howard to Aguchi Onyewu to Carlos Bocanegra to, you know, Bees on one side, Cherundalo on the opposite, Michael Bradley, Jermaine Jones, Kyle Beckerman, Landon Donovan, Clint Dempsey, all these guys.

Now, this younger group is raising the rising tide lifts all ships to the point where there are these competitions.

Now, as we say that, it still feels like this is a very similar starting XI that we would see in the World Cup, which we're settling on.

I had walked out at An- at Anfield and, and Old Trafford before I ever walked into a, a, a, a, a meal room with the US national team.

But I know because I had played against Tim Howard for Everton, and I know that I'd embarked Carlos Bocanegra on corners for Fulham, that when I walked into that locker room and that, in that meal room for the first day, guess who got invited to sit with them?

Yeah.

It's my first cap, and I'm sitting there next to these guys in the MLS that have been there waiting in the wings or had their 10th cap.

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Carlos, Carlos Bocanegra and DaMarcus Beasley used to come in there.

Oh.

Le- let me, uh, le- let me drop some names on you.

Uh, Ante Razov, Mo Adu, Carlos Bocanegra, Nick Rimando, Tony Beltran.

Like, that's just, like, our little group of, like- Two, two to three cities around surrounding Upland.

I mean, Montclair is right underneath Claremont.