You want to teach the next generation so they can learn a little bit faster and a little bit more so everything becomes that much better.

This is something that's very special; people saying they watch me play who are now turning professional.

Looking back now at my first World Cup experience, I didn't know what was going on. I was a newbie and I had no idea what to expect.

We didn't think we were a fourth-place team. For us to beat the first-place team in the West and the first-place team in the East shows the dedication and determination that we had.

I turned 24 in the middle of my first World Cup and it was quite an unbelievable experience. It's really hard for words to do it justice.

That's one of my jobs, just trying to do what I can to help this team out as much as possible.

I never thought I'd play soccer past high school, so to go from that team to actually being most-capped and three World Cups is pretty special.