Dunseth says he learned how to be more media friendly from Alexi Lalas when the two of them played together in New England in 1997.



The rookie followed the U.S. national team star and current ESPN analyst into a TV interview to observe how it was done.



"They asked him a question and he just turned on a light, he turned into this different person," Dunseth recalls. "I'd never seen anything like it. I was just watching how he was excited, he was telling stories, he was taking shots at himself, making himself look human and it was all super interesting to me. I was actually standing next to one of the media members up there in Boston and I was like, 'Man, I want to learn how to do that.'"