Let me preface this by saying I don’t really care about soccer at all. However, my pride takes quite a bit of a hit to think that our national team got knocked out of two straight World Cups by Ghana. Ghana has what, a population of about 100? A total GDP amounting to roughly the value of a bag of soccer balls? We got beat by THAT country TWICE. Sorry, but we need to win this one. Any self-respecting superpower ought to be able to grab a win against the likes of Ghana, for goodness sake.
(BTW - In case it’s not obvious, the above is meant to be a bit tongue in cheek.)
Tongue in cheek stuff aside, the U.S. traditionally has had trouble to teams with speed. We’ll see how they can deal with it this time.