US: Türkiye's Kenan Yildiz hopes to sign off World Cup with victory against US.

SHOTLIST LOS ANGELES, US (JUNE 24, 2026) 1.SOUNDBITE (English) KENAN YILDIZ KENAN YILDIZ, SAYING: "...So first of all, our reasons what we spoke in the team, we always say like football goes in that way, whether you play good or bad, it doesn't matter, the result can be changed always. Also if we both games were the better team, I think we lost to two games. That's very sad. And hopefully for the next game we can make a good result and go out with pride. For my career, I don't think it's something very bad because football is not only the national team, a lot of tournaments or competitions now also with the team. I will give my best way on that. And also of course, I hope in the future I will have a lot of tournaments and competitions with Türk,ye and I will give my best for that. Of course we had high expectations, I know, because all of our country was supporting us and thought we will come very far. First of all I want to say also sorry to all Turkish people, to all the supporters who were with us, to come here to watch our matches and supporters here. I want to say sorry for that. I know it's disappointing, but yeah, what I want to say also for the future, we'll give our best for the future tournaments to make you proud again. But, the expectations were really high this tournament. We couldn't make it this time, but for the last game like sad, we want to give our best and go out with pride. We want to show us and still go out in a good way. Of course for me at the beginning it was really hard that I came here injured. To be honest, I tried my best in the first and the second game. I was not physically 100% but I still gave my best. And now for the last game I also want to give my best for the county and for my team. But yeah, for the crowd tomorrow, I think I played in bigger crowds, also in Türkiye against Galatasaray and all that. So I think we're all used to big crowds. Yeah, we're just trying to give our best and yeah, that's the way we can do it. I know like I said before, the expectations were really high for us. We went out early, but I think it was not in a bad way to be honest. Two games we were like a sad before, the better team we had. I think in the statistics we're in a lot of places, first place. We had the most shots, the most duels in the area of the other team side. So I think both games we did good, we did our best. That shows also the statistics. But how it is in football, statistics don't win the games. So at the end they scored and we didn't and that's why we went out. So of course for an attacking player it's really hard that you didn't score in two games now, also for the whole team. But now what I can say about these two teams that we played against, they were really in the back. They were really low in the defense. So we tried our best to score and we tried a lot of things to score, but it didn't happen and didn't work out. So for that, but now for the last game, we will try our best to attack. And I'm sure we're going to score in the next game. Now for the US team, first of all I'll start with this. I generally think they're a really good team. They have a really good squad, really good players. And yeah, some friends also that I played with. No, I really like them also, also the players there. But for the last game they will rotate I think also a lot like you said. That's football, a lot of teams rotate, so we have to prepare for that. We have our coach for that. We make our video analysis and that's the only thing we can do. I think, it's a hard question because I know we have a lot of talents. But I don't think that we didn't show our qualities. I think we did, we showed also our talents. At the end it didn't work out. That's the only thing I can say. To be honest I didn't think about this till now. To be honest the cooling breaks are not even that bad. You can have a little pause because sometimes the heats are different. Of course you have to manage that I think in every game different. Because you don't know how the weather is there or there in different places. So let's say if it's really hot, so I think it's a good part to have a cooling break. To cool down, take some water. Like I always say, my brother, I love him, John you know. But yeah, I cannot say anything about that because the decision is always on the coach. Of course I also want him to play, I love John. But like I said, the decision is on the coach, he's making decisions and he's the boss of the team. So I cannot say anything about that. But of course we were all set that we couldn't go out of the group so we can speak about that. Of course, the tactics cannot be the same Juventus here. You have two different coaches. But like I said, I was injured before the tournament. I don't know how many trainings, I think two before the first game. So like I sa