It's an old dumb joke, join the army, they said. See the world, they said. Well, I joined up and this is the part of the world I've been seeing. We are in PayPal Park, which is in Southern California, very close indeed to the Levi's Stadium where the 49ers play their NFL football and the Levi's Stadium is as sexy as it comes.

This, however, is where tomorrow the US men's team part of the Gold Cup begins against Trinidad and Tobago.

I'm here to make television, produce television for a host broadcast service.

A job I've done before, as you probably all know, mostly with the Spain national team.

This is very different.

It's quite a long journey to California from Barcelona.

Did you know that?

I did, but I wasn't aware of the damage it can do to your

mental well-being to travel across continents, have no sleep for 23 hours and then go straight

to work for 18 hours. That leaves you a little bit bewildered. So if some of my words are

backwards, if I swear a little bit less, it's only because

of jet lag. The work here has been brutally intense, absolutely non-stop, doing maybe, in my opinion,

honestly, now no kidding, three days work in one day, three days in a row.

The interesting part.

Well, look, soccer is soccer.

I prefer this tournament long established, really vital to the nations that take part in it to the club world cup.

There are various reasons for that.

I think you already know what I feel about them,

but my hostility towards that tournament is such that I didn't want to

take part in it, and I did want to do this. So far, we've been welcomed with open arms by

Kurosau, El Salvador, Trinidad and Tobago, and the US men's team, meaning that the interviews

that I've taken part in so far have been with Mauricio Pochitino,

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