[kabar]

Soccer at the international level is one of the most nationalistic events there is. Nations have gone to war over a soccer game.

[1rudeboy]

That's the fundamental irony behind these arguments, including Goldberg's. Libs want to take the U.S. down a peg (in many ways).

We can learn that we’re not as great as we think we are — or, more precisely, that we’re not as great as old, conservative, red-state Americans think we are.

Meanwhile, soccer fans want to see the USA win so they can rub the rest of the world's noses in it.