Tony Meola
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"Antonio Michael "Tony" Meola" is an United States/American former Association football/soccer goalkeeper (football)/goalkeeper who represented the USMNT/United States national team at the 1990 FIFA World Cup/1990, 1994 FIFA World Cup/1994, and 2002 FIFA World Cup/2002 FIFA World Cup/World Cups, and from 1996 to 2006 played in Major League Soccer, the U.S. top soccer division, where he obtained multiple honors. He currently plays for charity team Global United FC.

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Thank God for the rain delay today because I don't know what the heck was going on in the first 20 minutes. But we came out with a heckuva lot more intensity and we pumped the ball into their end of the field and battled.

We've got to get points out of this, ... Just like the playoffs, if you play at home first, you've got to win. That's the way we have to look at it. We had a great week of training, I thought. A really hard week, especially in the beginning of the week. It seems like forever since we played a game and I think everyone's ready.

At halftime Mo did a good job. A lot of guys felt like we battled pretty good. At halftime we came in and Mo told us it wasn't good enough. He said we still had more in us.

I remember sitting with John.

I hope the guys today who go over to England never forget that John Harkes opened up the door.

I had a good time while I was here. I love it here and my family is here. I certainly have no hard feelings about anybody in Kansas City. The city is great and it's fun to come back.

We stepped up the tempo at the right time. We had to push the ball at them and that's what we did after the delay. It was boring, to be honest, to be sitting around and waiting all that time. We had to play better after the delay.

He held his own out there. He wore down toward the end, which is to be expected, but he was solid.

We're in such a predicament that I haven't really thought about that stuff, ... We need to win, that's the bottom line. It just happens to be that this week it's Kansas City. Maybe the one there might be a little bit different but right now all I'm worried about is winning.