I can think of no better single way to beat down the psyche of the American hating Euros than to eliminate them in the World Cup
I think the big reason will be that the majority of the US doesn't even care about the World Cup...we have more Team USA followers abroad than at home. Even with a small fraction of the interest or support that other countries have for soccer, we can still come in and do better than the majority of them. I don't know about you, but that would really burn me up...if I wasn't a USA fan.
Yeah, I kind of like this beating these foreigners in a game we don't even care about.