SHANGHAI -- From the 86th floor of the Jin Mao Tower, nearly 1,200 feet above the bustling Pudong business district, the views of the skyline here are awe-inspiring. And so it seemed like a good place to have lunch with U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati at the swanky Club Jin Mao on Friday afternoon and talk about U.S. Olympic soccer (men's and women's) with the man in charge, a few hours before the U.S. women's quarterfinal showdown against Canada.

Here's what the prez had to say:

SI.com: What's your sense of the Olympic tournament for the eliminated U.S. men's team?

Gulati: Well, we're not at a stage anymore where there are moral victories in tournaments like this. We're well past that. And so I think what's really frustrating when I look at it is we didn't lose to superior teams necessarily. So if we go out and play Argentina at Giants Stadium with the senior team, when we get that result [0-0 in July], it's a great result, because we played well against a team that technically is better.

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