U.S. men's national team interim coach Mikey Varas said his players lacked the right mentality in a historic 2-1 loss to Canada on Saturday at Children's Mercy Park in Kansas City, Kansas.
"The mentality is on the players. They know it," he told reporters."We speak the truth to each other. I love those guys. But they know that mentality to fight, to run and to sacrifice, I can't do that for them. That's on them.""I'm not a psychologist, so I don't know," he said."I felt that the trainings were intense. They were aggressive. But when the game comes, you gotta get going. And the players are the ones that bring that.
"Players are going to take responsibility for quality of action. The translation of the ideas weren't clear enough because you shouldn't be static and you shouldn't pass the ball just to pass the ball. You're trying to be trying to accelerate play as quickly as you can."
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