Roughly nine months since being left off the United States' Olympic qualifying roster, USMNT and FC Dallas striker Ricardo Pepi called the snub a turning point to his season.
"It just made me hungry," Pepi said Friday. "It made me hungry to go on for the year. To do good for my club, do good for the national team and it was a turning point, for sure, in my career."
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