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Meet The 'Energizer Bunny' Who Keeps Things Loose With USA's World Cup Squad

Tim Ream gets wrapped up in a bear hug. Mark McKenzie daps him up. Tim Weah has a special handshake. Every time U.S. men’s national team players get off the bus — whether it’s arriving at a training or a game — they're greeted by their biggest hype man, Harris Patel. "He’s barking, he’s hugging you, he’s dapping you up, he’s picking you up," McKenzie told me before a recent pre-World Cup training session. "That shock to the nervous system is sometimes necessary. It shows how much he cares about this team." "And it’s times 10 on game day," Christian Roldan added. Patel is one of the U.S. squad’...