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00:15with paver shield that will last for generations. It's time to see if the U.S. men's national team
00:22was just a bunch of hype in the group stage. If there's some real hope that this team can make
00:27some noise with the big boys in the 2026 FIFA World Cup. So I caught up with my former football
00:34teammate turned soccer enthusiast Chad Ochocinco to get his group stage reaction and of course his
00:42thoughts on how far this team can really go in this tournament. Hanging out with the man the myth
00:48the legend Ochocinco and for those of you wondering right now I still look better than him. We go back
00:55into CFL year 2014 in Montreal. I was whooping that ass in FIFA but I haven't lost a game of
01:05FIFA since 2007. I've beaten you in FIFA. No never never I haven't lost. All right so back when we
01:12were playing though we would have never thought to use Team USA in a match. Now they look like they
01:20can be contenders. How far can this team go? You know what right now the way they look against Paraguay
01:25the way they've looked against when they played Australia they look very good. But caution to win
01:31with me having a great understanding of the game understanding that the team that we were playing
01:35they were decent where they're nothing like the upper echelon of team that they're going to see
01:40if we make it to the quarterfinals if you make it to the semifinals. So if they play as confident
01:46as they look the first two games I feel we have a chance. In the game of soccer the beautiful
01:51game
01:51or football whatever you want to call it it's all about moments. Yeah. And what team capitalizes on
01:56those moments the most consistent. What if we do that we'll be fine. One of the biggest things we've
02:01seen is you know with Christian Pulisic being out with the calf injury we've seen guys step up
02:06full of ball again. All these guys have had their moments. Is this the deepest roster that you feel
02:13like Team USA has had in recent years? You know what I think they've had decent rosters in other
02:19years but for some reason I'm not sure what it is I've never seen them play the way they're playing
02:23right now. I don't know what happened I don't know what Pochettino has done with his team but
02:27they're playing extremely well. I think about Pulisic going down obviously he's our wonder boy he's our
02:31star kid and Ricardo Pepe stepping in and we didn't miss a beat we didn't miss a beat and so
02:36most of the
02:37time we always hear the next man up attitude we always hear that saying but most of the time the
02:41next man up
02:42is nothing like the one that went down. But the fact that we didn't miss a beat and we still
02:45look
02:46good in all three phases of the game I'm excited. Zlatan Ibrahimovic said that the Americans can win
02:54this tournament. How far do you really think the U.S. men's national team can go? If you know Ibro
02:59if
02:59you know Zlatan he doesn't lie. Zlatan doesn't lie. If he says we can do it we can do it.
03:05I mean
03:05obviously his knowledge of the game and what we look like the first two games obviously he sees
03:09something that maybe others don't but but but for me I also understand how good they look those
03:15first two games and I also understand the opponents that they were playing. Okay. All right so in the
03:19knockout rounds how far do they have to go to keep to big a big momentum for not for it
03:24to just to be
03:25a trend but for really push American soccer culture in the eyes globally. If we make it to the quarterfinals
03:31I will streak the streak the field new. Let's do that. I mean you go on one side I go
03:38on other
03:38side and then I'll go with you. Appreciate you man. Love you bro. Appreciate everything you do for the
03:44game and what you did for cats like me up in the CFL who wanted to get into this TV
03:48thing and wanted
03:49to show that personality man. Appreciate you bro. Call me. It all gets real on July 1st. July 1st at
04:008 p.m.
04:01the U.S. men's national team is going to line up against a pretty tough Bosnia Herzegovina squad
04:07in the round of 32. Win they're one step closer to gaining some global respect. Lose and the rest of
04:15the world is going to be ready to say I told you so but these dudes knew what was at
04:20stake before
04:21the tournament even kicked off so I say game on.
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