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Coach’s Quotes: Shore praises VanOekel, addresses direct play

It was a difficult week early in the week. But what we told the players is how unfortunate it is. This is the business that we're in. We told our players you guys are professional soccer players and you're paid to play soccer. We're coaches and we're paid to coach.

This is a pretty reasonable perspective, right? The next line is what interests me most.

So once the news came out, everybody had their issues with it, but we got on the field Tuesday and had a really good, competitive day of training, and then Wednesday we got into our tactical issues with the Red Bulls and came here.