OT: The 2026 World Cup Thread

[varjao]

This is watching history, can't root against Messi

 

[mgteich]

Perhaps, in order to succeed, we will need to get more "foreign" stars to play for us, much as what happens in the Olympics.
Our star was born in the US because his mother was too far along to get on the plane home. I believed he lived in the US for a month.
We are lucky that the law still allows him to be an American citizen.

 

[The Brandon Five]

an interesing attitude

So, do you expect India and China to be the top of every sport because of their large populations. That simply isn't how it works.

Norway holds the record for the most gold medals in Winter Olympics history, capturing 166 all-time golds. The United States ranks second with 125, followed by Germany with 120. [1]
All-Time Winter Olympic Gold Medal Leaders

• Norway: 166 golds (466 total medals)
• United States: 125 golds (330 total medals)
• Germany: 120 golds (266 total medals)
• Canada: 82 golds (246 total medals)
• Soviet Union: 78 golds (194 total medals) [1]
  
  Norway has a population of about 6 million people.

 

[Guts]

What choke job by Egypt catastrophic collapse there. The mother of all choking.

well it was in Atlanta a certain nfl team from that city choked the biggest nfl game

 

[ctpatsfan77]

What choke job by Egypt catastrophic collapse there. The mother of all choking.

After some FIFA bullcrap.

 

[ctpatsfan77]

This is watching history, can't root against Messi

Sure you can. I was doing it just an hour or two ago.

 

[PATSNUTme]

Norway holds the record for the most gold medals in Winter Olympics history, capturing 166 all-time golds. The United States ranks second with 125, followed by Germany with 120. [1]
All-Time Winter Olympic Gold Medal Leaders

• Norway: 166 golds (466 total medals)
• United States: 125 golds (330 total medals)
• Germany: 120 golds (266 total medals)
• Canada: 82 golds (246 total medals)
• Soviet Union: 78 golds (194 total medals) [1]
  
  Norway has a population of about 6 million people.

I will accept defeat to Norway in winter "sports".

 

[Guts]

After some FIFA bullcrap.

 

[Guts]

 

[Triumph]

I'm not a big soccer fan. I try to watch it but I get really bored. So maybe I'm not looking at it the right way.
The US has a population of about 320,000,000. Every city and town has a youth soccer program. Most high schools and colleges have soccer teams.
We just lost to Belgium, a country of 12,000,000. I've also heard on sports shows and even news shows how great it was that the US made it to the round of 16.
We just got crushed by Belgium a country with 4% of our population. I find it embarrassing that with all the people we have participating in this sport that we get crushed in the round of 16 by a tiny country.

That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it.

Soccer is still somewhat new in the USA.

Of all the World Cups, this is the very first one that I have followed and there are many more just like me.

 

[Triumph]

My conclusion is that our education system has been failing our country badly for the past 20+ years.

Look who controls it and you have found the reason why.