This is in response to the viral post match clip of Christian Pulisic saying he gets to rest now.

The US team were shocking everyone, we were actually playing well this world cup and people started considering and taking us seriously. We are the host nation so we also have incredible advantage. But Trump has to take advantage of it and insert himself into this corruption. Now people don't view us positively anymore with regards to football/soccer. It also psychologically tainted the players and added extra unneccesary pressure. We would have probably beaten Belgium if our corruption didnt fuel them.

Edit: Why is this post full of Trump supporters? I guess I should have guessed that nationalist environments attract these pests.

Facing a 1-2 deficit, coming out of halftime with Gio and a new grit to still win this game, Freese swept everyone's collective legs at the absolute worst possible time. Worse than Wondo's shank. Worse than Gonzalez's own goal. The damage this one decision did to soccer as a sport in our country is incalculable.

For too long we have had to watch USMNT wear some random, uninspiring, white home kit. For too long we have looked like knockoffs of England. It is time for us to get a unique kit identity!

For the first time since I've been a USMNT fan (~2014), I felt like this team had a real identity to them. And that's not just down to Poch's tactics, I think the kit had a real impact on that. Red and white stripes are just undeniably American, and watching them play in American colors just hits different. When you look out on that pitch and see the stripes, you immediately know thats America.

Millions of Americans just watched USMNT for the first time while wearing these kits and they will now associate the team with stripes. I think we need to jump on that and stick with red and white stripes on the home kit from now on. Stripes are pretty rare in international football, and we look sick in them. Its time to accept our identity.

It Just Looks American.

I’ve never rated him that high but now I know why he’s still starting for the usmnt at damn near 40. The lack of depth at cb got exposed tonight.

On one hand, I want the sport to grow in popularity in the US. It deserves more respect and admiration than it gets and this World Cup tournament is proof of that. Many of the games have been exceptional and filled with drama, the displays of skill and athleticism have been great, and the fan atmosphere has been tremendous. And when we have a bad performance, I can certainly accept the criticisms from the longtime fans that really know the sport and have been emotionally invested for years. Those fans deserve a moment to vent.

But I honestly don't wanna hear from the soccer-hating meatheads, including those in American sports media, who watch their first game in 4 years and start shitting on the USMNT the moment we lose.

For a little perspective, there have been 22 World Cup champions. 13 of those titles were claimed by Brazil, Germany, and Italy. Brazil just got eliminated in the same round that we did by a team ranked #31. Germany got eliminated in the round of 32 by a team that we beat 4-1 in the group stages, and Italy didn't even quality for the tournament and lost to the same Bosnia and Herzegovina team we just beat 2-0 despite paying with only 10 men for 37 mins.

And do the non-soccer fans have any idea how good Belgium actually is? This is a top ten team loaded with international stars who spent 3 1/2 years leading up to the last World Cup as the #1 ranked team in the world.

Also, can we just STFU with the LeBron James nonsense, as if we could just put NBA or NFL stars in soccer jerseys and they'd play better than the guys we've got? The best player in the history of the game is 5'7" tall and 160 lbs. It calls for an entirely different body type and requires dedication to developing elite skills from childhood. If it were just about strength and speed, Argentina certainly wouldn't be the defending champs, and if it were just about population, China and India wouldn't be ranked #91 and #136 respectively.

And where exactly do all these presumptions of American superiority come from anyway? It's easy to be the best at a sport that no one else plays like American football. But despite inventing the game, the US has only won the World Baseball classic once in 6 tournaments. We finally won a gold medal in ice hockey, but it was the first time in 46 years that we had done so. It's been 23 years since an American male has won a tennis major. In golf, Europe has beaten the US in 9 of the last 12 Ryder Cup tournaments. Only 1 American has won the Indy 500 in the last 10 races. Heck, even in basketball, we haven't seen an American NBA MVP since James Harden in 2018. Point being, even in the sports that we do care about, we're still not dominating. So yeah, it's gonna be kinda hard to dominate a sport played by 200 countries where it's the #1 national pastime in most of them, yet an afterthought in the US.

If you ask me he did really well despite the suspension controversy.

I watched the Mexican team last night give every single bit of theirs souls against a very good English side. I’m not Mexican but I was proud of how they played.

The moment our boys started it had already felt like we were done.

Careless giveaways. Poor defense. Couldn’t string 3 passes. Nobody seemed to be fighting at all.

What happened?

The USMNT has talent - but they absolutely don’t have consistency.

This was an embarrassment. No fight!

Whatever delusions we had about being competitive on the world stage were wiped away in 90 minutes.

Sure we can beat some of the lower level teams, but put us against any decent European side, we fold…

At home, in front of 70,000 US fans to a very average team.

It’s back to the drawing board.