00:00Where do you think that came from? Because you had not shown those tendencies all this entire World Cup, and
00:05how did you try to get out of it?
00:07Yes, I agree. I think today we didn't show our real quality like a team. I think never we were
00:14connected with the
00:15man of the game.
00:19I want to congratulate Belgium because they were good.
00:23Like I told before, it's a very good team, but I think we were not in our level.
00:30I think we never connected with the game. I think we really started really in a poor way.
00:37I think we never were with the flow of the game.
00:46Even when we score and the 1-1 from Malik Tillman, even in the next action, we can see the
00:54goal.
00:54Goals that normally, you know, I think we cannot concede. But that is how we analysed the game.
01:04I think it's true that today we were not the same team that during the tournament showed the quality.
01:12It was a very bad day. It was our day in a collective and individual way. And we need to
01:21accept that
01:21sometimes this type of thing happens. But in a tournament like the World Cup, when that happens,
01:26you have not another chance. You have no net. I think when that happens in a knockout stage,
01:31you know, you are out and you need to go home. You need to accept that.
01:36So I have to ask you this morning about President Trump's comments saying that he'd called Gianni Infantino.
01:42So was that in hindsight a distraction or do you not want to offer up the whole Balogun saga as
01:49any kind of excuse?
01:55It's difficult to make a comment. I think we were not good enough today.
02:01We don't need to find another excuse. I think we were not good enough.
02:10It wasn't our day. We didn't perform in the way that we were supposed to perform or showing our quality.
02:18But I think all that was happening around was around. But I think it wasn't a situation that affected us
02:27on the group. I think like all the team can have one day, sometimes that you don't perform and
02:35nothing is right for you. And today was that of this type of day that, you know, you suffer
02:42because we never, you know, you can never connect with the game. But to find outside
02:49for different situations that already explained FIFA, already explained everyone was, I think it's
02:56clear how they explain and what happened is because of the rules that you can, you know, apply. I think
03:08from that, I see any comment about that, no comment about that. And Belgium were better than us and
03:15that's it. It's very clear the situation. Is there still a gap between the level of the US and top
03:2310
03:24teams and competitive games? And do you want to stay another four years to work with this team?
03:32I think it's also, no, it's the improvement or to grow. It's not like you are in a rocket and
03:46you
03:46improve and you grow like this.
03:52One year ago, I think, before I started the World Cup, one year ago, before the start of the World
03:58Cup,
03:58I think no one believed that we are going to arrive today and talk that we were playing again. Belgium,
04:03one of the contenders to win the World Cup. We players that are World Champions League winners,
04:09La Liga or Premier League winners, La Liga or Premier League winners, we were playing again,
04:15you know, players that have, you know, experience and they are top players. I think if one year we think
04:23that we were in a mess, thinking today in the way that we perform in that World Cup, I think
04:32we improve a lot. But the problem is you improve, but sometimes you need to go little by little like,
04:38you know, it's not lineal that you are going to grow so quick. For me, I am so proud because
04:45in one year,
04:46I think with all the circumstances, I think this team show that we can play football, we can play soccer,
04:54we can compete. That we need to keep improving. A lot of young players with a lot of potential and
05:01future.
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