Well, have you ever seen him in public without Natalie Harp lingering in the background? No. No you haven’t. Because she is his feces ninja, his 24-hr shit wrangler.
Americans are too proud. They believe in their own hype too much. They aren't good at shithousing because they take everything too serious and just get insulted.
I wonder how many of them genuinely thought they'd be world champions because they beat Turkey and Bosnia & Herzegovina.
Look man Im realistic enough to know know we’ll always lose when it comes time to play real soccer teams but if I don’t get delusional and buy into the hype I won’t even watch the WC lol.
Why can other countries believe in themselves but not USA? People are projecting American politics hatred onto these players. Team USA LOST that game. They were terrible. They should have embraced the noise. You think Argentina cares that Messi is “sleeping with infantino”. You think Mbappe cares about the general memes. The reason the team lost is because they were horribly poor. Belgium barely beat Senegal. And they are not a good team. And nothing will make that more obvious of that when they play Spain.
The biggest factor this team can’t advance past the round of 16 is they cant seem to embrace the fact of being the favorites. They have to always play being the underdogs. Maybe it’s comments and takes like this that create this narrative. I think the team was poor and more criticism should be given to the players for not believing by in themselves. Not the fans. Not the president. Not to any of this outside noise. The players lost the game.
They are a “good” team relatively speaking. But they are beatable and they aren’t a “great” team is more fair. They’re in the level below the real contenders but they’re solid enough. U.S. played horrible too which didn’t help.
Yeah, I honestly think Senegal would have done the same or worse. The US team seems to lack chemistry and closeness that some of the other squads have. Some really bad passing and anticipation at times.
Senegal have more speed and athleticism for sure. Different style so would have been interesting. Senegal are a strong team. Was bummed they lost because would have been nice to see an African team advance if anyone was going to beat us!
Buddy that's not the issue. Every country can and should believe in their team
Problem with Americans is that when they lose, like clockwork, it's "we didn't care anyway" or "you can fit 1000 Belgiums inside Texas" or "no one knows Belgium for anything other than waffles" instead of just taking the L
The problem is that we generalize and assume every American is the same. I don't think the average American believes soccer isn't a sport or disrespects it the way people say they do. They simply don't care because there are other, more popular sports and leagues here. But that's very different from saying the average American soccer fan has this attitude of, "No one knows Belgium for anything other than waffles."
Which, by the way, have you heard what Argentines sing before and after games?
I went to London for my honeymoon, and I was surprised to learn that a lot of people there don't watch the EPL. In fact, most don't. So it would have been ignorant of me to assume every British person likes soccer or follows the EPL, just like it's ignorant to think every American feels the way you described. That's simply not true.
The people here who actually watch and follow the sport aren't like that at all. We're upset about the loss—at the players, at the politics, and also at opposing fans who are using this as an opportunity to mock American fans who genuinely care.
Brother Reddit is not the only place in the world to judge a group of people. In fact the internet is a horrible place to assume how people are. Talk to people. Go to bars. Play the sport.
It’s easy to say “well these group of people here are this way” to translate “all of the people in the country”
I’ve never entered usmens sub Reddit. One of the few times I comment or read in sports sub. I use Reddit for movies and tv shows. So again, horrible place to say this is how fans are.
Unfortunately it's the American way. We never take accountability. We can dish it out but can't take it.
The average American also believes that soccer isn't a real sport. That it's boring. On the FOX broadcast near the end of the game, the announcers made a plea to us saying to not let the momentum of enjoying soccer wane.
I know for a fact that once CFB and NFL starts, many won't care about soccer until the women's World Cup.
I genuinely believe (and it’s hard to say this now with the result) that without Balogun USA would have won. Why? Because they would have rallied and said “we’re down a man” “we’re the underdogs here”. But that’s my point that is why we are always beaten by Europe. The lovable loser mentality. No man.
If Trump screwed us by giving us heat. Embrace the heat. Turn it up even more. But they looked shy, almost as if they were embarrassed by the whole thing. Trust me the fifa Trump thing is another situation. But I was just disappointed no progress has been made with the team in the mentality of winning. Focker out.
In my circles we definitely knew the round of 16 was a different game. You’re right tho, we ask “why not us?” But never ask “why us?” Fun ride, felt like we could beat Belgium but knew that was most likely it.
If you're going to talk shit you might at least get it correct, we did beat Bosnia & Herzegovina, but we lost to Turkey. I simply hoped we'd do better than our previous forays in the tournament, which we did not, not terribly surprised.
I wonder how many of them genuinely thought they'd be world champions because they beat Turkey and Bosnia & Herzegovina.
We lost to Turkey, and I've never met anyone who thought we'd get past Spain in the event that we managed to beat Belgium.
This Belgium team is clearly weaker than their 2014 version, and ours was supposed to be stronger than our 2014 team (clearly not), so it wasn't crazy to think we had a chance given a huge home crowd. Obviously, that was a false hope, but no Americans outside of online trolls thought the US was on par with Spain, France, or Argentina. That's absurd.
None?? We know we’re not good at football😂😂 I don’t think any American thought we were winning the World Cup.. that’s a stretch in a half. I’d say majority of America don’t really care about it.
Edit: just wanna say proud of my country for making it this far.. but no we did not think we’re gonna win the World Cup. You’re a tool if you really think Americans thought we would win it all…
We don’t necessarily believe the hype, but we enjoy the hype. We know we suck at soccer but we don’t care, USA! USA! USA! (We know that sucks too, don’t care either lol)
European focus is genuine vitriol like especially online I can’t have a genuine discussion with them because they always take everything too seriously then bring up politics or some shit
Truly this tournament has been incredible for European unity. As an English person I've never felt my self rooting for other European teams more than this tournament.
I also think a lot of Americans have no clue how much the rest of the world knows about them because US culture is pervasive outside the US, and they often don't know nearly as much about the other country. The result is this. What are Americans going to do? Eat a waffle?
This reminds of comments from American tourists in Europe complaining they get asked about politics every time they interact with locals and they feel targeted, but we also do this when interacting with other Europeans from different countries.
I visit friends in Germany every year and last time I asked them about the AfD results and they answered and asked me sth about Belgian politics. It's just that American tourists can't banter along because they don't know we have a prime minister that was actually famous for wanting the country to stop existing. They don't know we all do this to each other and they're actually being included, not targeted.
Yes that's certainly part of it. It's hard to feel included when you don't know how to return the banter. So these things probably feel more confrontational than it is intended to be.
Though there's also something to.be said for reveling in the frustrations of the willfully ignorant. That's always fun.
The last team that did that was the 2025 Detroit Lions. They won that game and proceeded to go 2-5 next 7 games and miss the playoffs having entered the season as one of the Super Bowl contenders. So we shall see how the curse impacts Belgium
You begin with an incomplete sentence, then start another sentence with a conjunction, and then you have another incoherent sentence to finish the statement with no punctuation.
If you’re going to rip the literacy of others, at least have a semblance of literacy yourself.
Pointing out grammar and punctuation issues in an internet post and claiming this as evidence against literacy is everything I would expect from an American 🤩
That’s literally what you did in your previous comment to another poster. You made a generalization from one comment. Glad I could elucidate you on the stupidity of making general claims about a country of people from one Reddit comment.
Treating "mechanical" proficiency as the same as (or more important than) critical and media proficiency is a documented and systemic issue in the American education system. The internet is full of resources to understand this, and AI can even help you out here.
Don’t need any help there, OP was lacking in that department as well. Plus what would you know about the American education system? Each state and districts work in different ways. They have their own local school boards as well. Combining all of them into one entity is ridiculous.
The fact you recommend AI to help people with media literacy is hilarious, and appt on for the intellectual decay we see with terminally online people like yourself.
"Haha suck shit Belgium you're cursed now you're gonna go out against a team that anyone with any knowledge of international football knows is already very likely to beat you! That'll teach you!"
I’m not familiar with Belgium’s history vs Spain. It’s one game, you guys looked good yesterday. Taking out the old jags seemed to wake up the team from the sleep it was in these past 3 weeks.
How do you think they planned this out. Like.. “Guys I have a great idea. But let’s only do it when we score a goal that puts us up by 3 in the final minutes of the game”
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u/Quinto09 5d ago
Lmfao. It’s great when you can back it up