[antiRepublicrat]

The truly talented American children pick up different sports as they grow up.

Which is why we, as the most powerful nation in the world, with the best athletes in the world, have never won the biggest and most prestigious sporting event in the world. Sad, really. Nobody else in the world cares who wins at basketball or American football. The rest of the world looks at our power and says "So, you've never even come close to winning the World Cup."

You want to seriously screw with everybody's heads? Have us win the World Cup.

[dfwgator]

. The rest of the world looks at our power and says "So, you've never even come close to winning the World Cup."

We came very close to making the semis in 2002, when we lost to Germany in the Quarterfinals, and even afterwards the German players said that the US outplayed them, but were just unlucky.

[Dr. Sivana]

Which is why we, as the most powerful nation in the world, with the best athletes in the world, have never won the biggest and most prestigious sporting event in the world.

It isn't the most prestigious sporting event in the world. 90+% of the world's largest economy is indifferent to it. If the U.S. decided to train/buy players to win the World Cup, we would be dancing to their tune. L.A. doesn't need an NFL team to be a big league city . . . the U.S. doesn't need the World Cup to be a big league country.

What messes with their heads more is that we don't even care about soccer, and won't call it football or futbol or whatever.