Should players prioritize their national team or club team?
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One of the narratives that involved you a little bit was, during the Gold Cup, uh, as we learned more about it and we started to see that, Christian Ballistic and Marissa Postino weren't necessarily seeing eye to eye about Christian Ballistics absence from the team during the Gold Cup, and a lot of times people used your, you know, uh, sabbatical and, time away from the national team as a reference point to that.
It feels like those were a very different set of circumstances.
Did that upset you at all?
Did that piss you off?, No, it doesn't piss me off.
And just to be clear, by the way, I like Christian.
I'm giving my opinion based on all the years that I have played, right?
And what I think.
It is best for a national team player and one of the leaders or some of the leaders of the team.
It doesn't mean it's right, it doesn't mean people have to like it.
Um, to be very clear vis a vis Christian.
I am never, ah, critiquing him taking a break, he's played a lot of soccer in the last few years.
My critique is.
Who he chose to take the break from, and the same with Jedi Robinson.
They both at the end of their seasons with Fulham and AC Milan respectively, could have taken the last 2 or 3 weeks off when their team was not going up, not going down, had nothing to play for.
Instead, they chose to keep playing.
And then take 3 or 4 weeks off during the summer with their national team.
So my, my beef was not with them taking a break.
They all deserve a break.
It's that they didn't prioritize their national team a year in front of a, a year ahead of a World Cup at home.
And I would not have done that.
I did not agree with that, and I'm going to say that now, if there is more context or something I am missing here or there's a mental health issue or some issue in the family or something going on, I will say I was wrong.
I will say I take it back.
But guess what, that never happened, right?
So they just wanted to take a break and they prioritize their club teams over their national team.
That's fine, that's their choice, that's their decision.
I would not have done that.
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