00:00U.S. Soccer Federation has four years to do whatever it takes to field a team that can handle the
00:07hype.
00:07That was probably the most embarrassing loss in the knockout round, let's say in the history of the World Cup.
00:13I'm sure teams have lost by more goals, but not with all of the world hate and rage watching.
00:20We went into this game with the world looking at us like some overblown, overhyped cheaters,
00:27and then we came out looking like we got our ass beat for trying to change the rules of the
00:32game.
00:32It's almost like it would have been better if Battle Gun didn't play because that would have gave us some
00:37sort of out or an excuse.
00:39That team on the pitch looked inferior to Belgium, and they also looked like they heard the noise.
00:46They felt the pressure. They played tense.
00:49So when I say U.S. Soccer Federation has to field a team that can handle the hype,
00:53I'm talking about the hype and the pressure of actually being a country with some true soccer culture.
01:00Hakimi of Morocco, he's facing sexual allegations back in the country, but Morocco is in the round of eight.
01:07Kylian Mbappe is going head-to-head on Twitter with some racist Paraguayan senator,
01:12and he's got seven goals in the tournament, and he's in the race for the golden boot.
01:17We don't have a superstar on that level like those countries.
01:20I get it, but I refuse to believe that with all the money that we have here in the U
01:25.S.,
01:26all of the resources that we have here in the U.S., and how much bigger our country is geographically,
01:33that we cannot field a team that can go toe-to-toe with a good team or a good country.
01:40Kate Verde went toe-to-toe with Messi and the defending champs,
01:43and they went home as heroes with a bunch of players that they recruited off of LinkedIn.
01:48We blew the brakes off of Paraguay in the first match, and then they barely lost to France in their
01:53knockout game.
01:54It's just not making sense.
01:57Last night did not make sense.
01:59How do we still need miracle goals against top European competition?
02:04This exit hurt more than it gave hope,
02:07because we as fans just saw that our hope can only go so far on the world stage.
02:13So look, you may have lost some casuals, but you definitely gained some new fans
02:18who are going to pay a lot more attention and apply a lot more pressure on the federation
02:23and this team to be ready for the hype again in another four years.
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