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It's Roach and it's World Cup Day 12 and the United States men are preparing for their date with destiny against the Netherlands.

Number 8 in the world, a team led by Louis Van Gaal, that great tactical mind agent, stoically battling prostate cancer, leading his team with a real sense of their own journey.

After the delirium of the United States winning that must win against geopolitically fraught Iran no less.

Our baby eagles are absolutely buzzing into the wide open waters of the knockout rounds, a different tournament, a different strategy, a different mood, and it's incredible to welcome back a man who knows all of this so well first-hand.

A gent who's experienced a delirium of a group stage third game glory in the land and Donovan Algeria 2010 game. He was Bob Bradley's right hand man on the coaching staff, a game that made our nation dizzy, but the team then fizzled in the round of 16 against a garner.

A lost and in many ways still hurts, but it's a true joy to welcome back from Racine with sconce in fire lead Yorkshire with no praise in this introduction because I learned my lessons, it's your manager of lead genited. Mr. Jessie Marsh.

Good, better introduction, just stick to the facts. Just stick to the facts, let's hope that's true.

Yeah, stick to the facts, it sounds like a courtroom procedural, but Jesse the facts are these we live we live USA one Iran, Neil and Jesse top line big picture. What do you make in the performance?

A very good first half an incredible result to get us out of the group. An exciting display of the quality of our young players.

I think really looking at it in a big picture, it was really important for us to get back in this world cup and maybe even more important for us to emerge from the group.

So really proud of the guys, granks done a great job, you know, it gives us a chance to have build even more momentum as a US soccer base fan base and to look forward to a great game against against the Netherlands.

How do you watch? Here's what I want to know, are you are you calm? Are you cool? Are you detached like me? Or do you watch like your coach at leads living the every emotion of the game?

I don't believe you're detached at all. I don't live it like a coach, but I definitely live it like a fan.

I've always said that I'm a fan before I'm even a coach. I love this game, I love the sport, I love watching the best teams, the best players in the world.

And so I'm a big fan of US soccer and I was super excited. The weird part for me in the whole thing was you're looking for these moments of jubilation, of inspiration.

And when Christian scores a huge goal, but then is injured in the moment and even the teams not sure how to celebrate and they're concerned about his health, it took away a little bit from the excitement of the moment.

But nonetheless, really, really happy for those guys and excited to look forward to the next match.

I want to go back to the beginning and ask you about the lineup. The big surprise was a World Cup debut, handed to Cameron Carter Vickers, the 24 year old British American centre back. He's a real unit.

And Greg Boyle has said he liked his experience playing teams in a low block, playing for Celtic in the Scottish Premier League.

Tim Howard has come on our show. He's talked about how important chemistry and reps are for centre back pairings. He always liked his centre backs to have played multiple times.

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