-"We're never going to get better playing as a team unless we get used to playing against the best competition out there," he stated. "In the last two games, we have played a lot of top talent. It's a testament to Bob that teams as good as Sweden and Brazil want to play us, so we must be moving in the right direction."- Jay DeMerit also, some good (but slightly old stuff) on his blog http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?name=demerit_jay "it's all about positive energy. Ever since I met Frankie Hejduk for the first time, we talked about how positive enegy will get you through most situations." "We also got approached in Boston by a group of people that thought Pablo (Mastroeni), Frankie (Hejduk), Michael (Bradley), Landon (Donovan), Carlos (Bocanegra) and I were a boy band. We played along so well until Frankie ruined it by trying to sing. It was all just a blast, and it was good times like these off the field that made us work harder for each other on the field."
I met Jay DeMerit's mom after the game. I know it's random, but it was pretty cool. I guess 39 people (friends and family) came to watch him and he didn't get to play.
You're right. Landon's the sensitive one, Carlos is the good-looking one, Pablo is the ethnic one, Jay is the blonde one, Frankie is the crazy one & Mike B. is the really young one (see Baby Spice or Justin Timberlake circa N'Sync).