“He appreciated the thoughts that we were conveying to him about what we did at the club. All of us have different ways of skinning the cat, or winning, or being successful. … When you spoke to [D’Agostino], you could just feel the passion that they had about what they were trying to develop with the culture of the [USMNT]. And so I was in. I was drinking the Kool Aid right away.”

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