USMNT glued to screens watching Turkey, Australia and Messi

Like everyone else, the members of the USMNT have been glued to their screens these last few days. They, of course, have watched plenty of film about Australia, particularly their group stage opener against Turkey. In their "off" time, the players haven't stepped away from soccer completely.

Instead, they, too, have been watching the World Cup. Aaronson and Robinson, for example, were locked in on Argentina's win over Algeria on Tuesday. They watched that game as competitors, of course, but it was hard not to let the fan come out during those Lionel Messi moments of magic.

"Watching the Turkey and Australia game, it was great to watch, because we could all sit down and kind of pull apart the game and see what we can do to kind of influence the game," Aaronson said. "I think that's pretty cool. And then just watching, like, the Argentina game yesterday is, it's a little bit of who you're playing farther in the tournament, but also the fanboy comes out of all of us watching Messi score a hat-trick.

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