In an exclusive, hour-long interview, FC Dallas coach Oscar Pareja discusses a wide range of topics. Starting with taking his temperature nine games into the season, details on specific players, how he feels about the club's attendance woes and closing with his surprising admission on coaching ambitions.

Pareja is an incredibly easy person to do these sessions with. Far more conversation than interview, Oscar is frank, unflinching with direct questions and honest. The audio is just over an hour in length and contains a gold mine of insight on topics the media and fanbase spend a lot of time speculating about. Diaz's fragility, Castillo's tactical maturity, why Victor Ulloa and Moises Hernandez possibly represent the biggest success and failures of his coaching career, his big problem at fullback and how Maxi Urruti has helped release the pressure to find a #9.

But, the most interesting insights come from comments on the concepts of team play, why he thinks the team has yet to play its best soccer and most amazingly - his revelation of the three teams he holds of ambitions of coaching one day. One of which being a certain national team.

Oh, and please don't miss his MLS 20th Anniversary story about 'The Shootout', it's amusing and a great look back on the newborn league's biggest oddity. (and no, I was unable to find a YouTube of Oscar participating in a shootout)