Your impression of their match and their win over Australia playing without Christian Pulisic going back to Friday?

Well, again, it just shows how deep the U.S. squad is.

You know, to think that we have that performance, very solid, clean sheet at the back, a lot of chances, still score two without arguably our best player.

This is a good sign for the U.S. National Team fans.

The good news is that having someone like Christian Pulisic coming off the bench, even now is slightly injured.

I mean, what a weapon.

And so that's the good sign.

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Central defender Jay DeMerit, who had recently risen from non-league to the second tier, was beginning his second campaign with the club, and remembers the dressing room's reaction to his new boss's lofty ambitions.

I think originally we were all a bit shocked.

You know, we, we, we were under no illusions that we were, um, you know, near the bottom of, of the ring.

And, uh, you know, I think that was one of Aidy's gifts.

You know, Aidy, Aidy Boothroyd had this incredible gift to inspire, uh, without really having the, the, the backup.

But for some reason, we believed him.

You know, his pa- his merit, his, his, his skills, his, his experience was actually n- not much.

Jay DeMerit stooping in the box to write another chapter of his remarkable story.

Mm-hmm

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in the ownership groups.

And I think, so it looks like there's some First Nations talks.

There's a lot of, uh, First Nations groups that are looking to, to, to, to contribute.

And I know whereby working with many First Nations cultures here and running youth programs that they use soccer as a great vehicle for education and development for their youth.

And so I think they see a huge opportunity.

Yeah.