Welcome back to Tianjin, China! We are getting ready for our second training session this afternoon, which will be in the stadium where we will play our games. It was specifically built for these Olympics and it holds 40,000. We have been told that all the games are sold out. I have described it as a much larger version of the 'pea' that is in Millennium Park.

Usually we train in the stadium the day before the game, but because the women's games are starting tomorrow, we are training inside today. We have yet to see other American athletes since we have not made our way to the Olympic village, but there has been quite a lot of interaction with other soccer players as four of the women's teams as well as the three other men's teams are all staying in our hotel. It has been pretty exciting to talk to them and get to know other footballers from around the world. The hotel has set up a karaoke machine along with air hockey and some other arcades downstairs for the athletes to relax and have some fun. I'm not going to throw any names out there, but we have some decent singers on our team!

The food here has been edible, not the best, but certainly not the worst. We are thankful to the chefs for trying to "Americanize" the food as much as possible. It can't be easy with teams here from all over the world. I am looking forward to the next few
days, as some of my family will be arriving from Chicago. Speaking with other guys on the team, we should definitely have a large supporter sections of family members so that should be good. Well it is off to practice, hope everyone is doing well back in the
Chicago.

Until next time,
Brad Guzan
U.S. Men's National Soccer Team

- Joe Trost