This episode is brought to you by Slack. With Slack, you can bring all your people and

tools together in one place. It's your digital HQ where you can increase productivity,

enable flexibility and automate workflows. Plus, Slack is full of game-changing features

like huddles for quick check-ins or Slack Connect, which helps you connect with partners

inside and outside of your company. Slack. Where the future works. Get started at

Slack.com slash DHQ.

Hello and welcome into the latest edition of ESPNFC, K-Merry Craig Burley and Stevie

Nickel here in the studio. A little later on we'll be looking ahead to those big semi-finals

coming up in the World Cup over the next two days, but we will start with the behind-the-scenes

drama in the US. Oh, drama. Oh, drama.

Team Camp, drama. Continue in the conversation here at Greg Burr-Holter.

Speaking at a summit on moral leadership in New York last week said, in this last World

Cup, we had a player that was clearly not meeting expectations on and off the field. We were

ready to book a plane ticket home. That's how extreme it was. And what it came down to

was we're going to have one more conversation with him and part of the conversation was

how we're going to behave from here out. There aren't going to be any more infractions.

There's a little bit more here. As a coach, the way you can deal with things most appropriately

is going back to your values because it's difficult to send a player home. It was going to

be a massive controversy. You would have been reading about it for five days straight,

but we were prepared to do it because he wasn't meeting the standards of the group and

the group was prepared to do it as well. So there's been a lot of talk about this, Seb and

Herk and our joining us from Qatar because we'd like to get the reaction that we've seen

...