“You guys don’t have variety, it’s pasta, pizza, fish, steak,” said McKennie.

“You know what the problem is with Italian food? It’s great, it’s good specific food that you do very well, but in America if I go to a burger joint or a steak house, then I go to another place 10 minutes down the street, I’m still eating a burger, but it’s a completely different taste.

“In Italy, I go to this restaurant and get a pesto pasta, I go 10 minutes down the street and order a pesto pasta, it’s the same thing.”

Weah didn’t help by adding he “prefers Italian-American food” to the real thing.