I love winning and any team I'm on, I expect to win.

The second-highest honor is playing for your country, and the highest honor is wearing the armband for your country. It shows that the players have confidence in me, and that feels good.

Fortunately for me, its my most favorite drill, and that is finishing. However, from a young age, soccer players in this country are not taught how to properly finish, and I think you see that through the professional ranks, that we dont have that killer instinct of the forwards from other countries.

I didn't have to step up into a leadership role, ... I just had to be there and help out where I could. But this year I had to be more of the man.

I've got a lot to prove to a lot of people, including myself.

Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We're in it for the bigger goal - to move it along for the next generation.

I don't know about the rest of the world, but I know in our region everyone is gunning to beat us. We have a new challenge.