(I expect him to be) getting up and down the wings. I'm just looking at certain things. I know in my head what I'm looking for; I'm not worried. |
A lot of people say he's a 35-year-old with a 30-year-old body. He's very fit. |
Are we too soft at times? For me, yes. Come [tonight] we won't be soft. New England will be in a battle. We'll be fighting them in every direction. If not, I'll make changes. |
As a team, we defended very well. Obviously the fans would have liked maybe three or four goals but tonight it just wasn't the case. |
Bob is a good friend, and now I'm picking up the pieces. But it's my opportunity to move the team forward. It's an emotional day, tough on the players, tough on the staff. |
Credit D.C., they're a good team and they come forward well. The second goal was a deflection. It was going straight at Tony and it came off Jeff and there's nothing much you can do. |
D.C. was the better team. There's no way I'm going to stand up here and make excuses when we got beat 4-1. |
From our standpoint, our performance was totally unacceptable. |
He fit right in. He is a very talented kid who has the potential to be a great player in this league. |
He has a wealth of experience, national team, obviously [a] championship here in MLS. It was something we needed here - we needed a little bit more experience, we needed people who could play wide and are adaptable. |
He said he was sorry. End of story. I'm not worried about that. He buckled down in the second half. Normally in the past, he would be sent off. |
He's an exciting young kid. He's fast, obviously he's 16 years old. When you have kids like that, you can hopefully build them into men and become good soccer players. |
He's been very solid in the preseason and training and everything that he's done. |
He's had a tremendous camp. His pace is unbelievable and his recovery is tremendous. There's no doubt in my eyes that you're going to see a Rookie of the Year come the end of the season. There's no one running by him and he just needs to get better in his positioning. Mark my words, he's going to be Rookie of the Year come the end of the season. |
He's physical, he's strong and he's fast and with Edson next to him we could give teams real problems. |