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Official US Soccer / World Cup '26 Thread (USA vs. Mexico 3/24 in Dallas)

Man United play Young Boys on Tuesday. I didn't realize their manager was American.
 
Screamindemon3 said:
Same manager that brought Huddersfield Town up a few season ago, then straight back down.
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and jurgen klopp's best man in his wedding, if you remember that story being told 200 times on nbcsn that season
 
Timo missed this chance.

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Screamindemon3 said:
That's just not true for WCQs. USSF fucked up once in recent memory (Costa Rica in New York City) but other than that they do a great job of targeting small MLS stadiums in cities with a low population of the team we're facing. Even Mexico fans have an extremely difficult time getting into the WCQs in Columbus.

The only reason Canada was played in an NFL stadium is because USSF knew Canada would bring less than 500 fans no matter where it was played.
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As I said, unless this team finds a way to atone for this qualifying debacle Nashville will be our last big stadium home field crowd. Don't get me wrong. I'll never stop supporting our national team, even when they suck. But if you don't think fans for Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador and Panama won't find a way into the smaller US stadiums and make more noise than the US fans, especially if the games are meaningful in the WCQ table, then you haven't been paying attention for the last 15 years. The USSF cares about MONEY. They've been staging games in Cali, Tx, Chicago and NY whenever they wanted the big gate because they know our fans don't show up for the USMNT in the bigger stadiums. As long as the USMNT has 0's on the scoreboard and hasn't met our USA type expectations our fans will sit on their hands in most stadiums in the USA. Even Ultra soccer fans like most of you experts in this thread are disgusted with what's going on with the USMNT. Nobody but you remembers "dos a zero". The only way this changes, if it EVER does, is that we look dominant over the rest of qualifying and then surpass expectations in the WC heading toward 2026 and enshrine the special generation of players to build the game in America We're a miles better soccer nation than in 1994 as far as fans go, but not so much on the pitch when it matters, except for the USWNT. They are the force with American soccer fans. I was in Sanford Stadium in 1994 when the USWNT beat China to win the GOLD in the first W Olympics. That level of support has only doubled, tripled, quadrupled, who knows. The Men.....not even in the same universe. We are a "nation" of winners. Sad but true.
 
Fusiondad10 said:
As I said, unless this team finds a way to atone for this qualifying debacle Nashville will be our last big stadium home field crowd. Don't get me wrong. I'll never stop supporting our national team, even when they suck. But if you don't think fans for Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador and Panama won't find a way into the smaller US stadiums and make more noise than the US fans, especially if the games are meaningful in the WCQ table, then you haven't been paying attention for the last 15 years. The USSF cares about MONEY. They've been staging games in Cali, Tx, Chicago and NY whenever they wanted the big gate because they know our fans don't show up for the USMNT in the bigger stadiums. As long as the USMNT has 0's on the scoreboard and hasn't met our USA type expectations our fans will sit on their hands in most stadiums in the USA. Even Ultra soccer fans like most of you experts in this thread are disgusted with what's going on with the USMNT. Nobody but you remembers "dos a zero". The only way this changes, if it EVER does, is that we look dominant over the rest of qualifying and then surpass expectations in the WC heading toward 2026 and enshrine the special generation of players to build the game in America We're a miles better soccer nation than in 1994 as far as fans go, but not so much on the pitch when it matters, except for the USWNT. They are the force with American soccer fans. I was in Sanford Stadium in 1994 when the USWNT beat China to win the GOLD in the first W Olympics. That level of support has only doubled, tripled, quadrupled, who knows. The Men.....not even in the same universe. We are a "nation" of winners. Sad but true.
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I’ve been to every home hexagonal WCQ since USA vs Costa Rica in 2009 and can 100% tell you that you’re wrong. You can choose to believe me or not, that’s fine, but you’re wrong.

Mexico can barely get fans into Columbus, the split is 90/10 at worst.
Costa Rica got no fans into Denver for Snowclassico and took over Red Bull arena (already addressed that in previous post, massive mistake by USSF)
Panama had no fans in Seattle
Honduras had little to none in San Jose and 0 in Salt Lake City
Panama had 1% of the stadium at best in Orlando
Jamaica doesn’t travel well outside of DC so of course they had no fans in Sporting KC

USSF has been spot on with every stadium choice in the last three cycles outside of RBA. Only 2 of those matches were in NFL stadiums and both matches saw less than 500 of the opposing nations fans.
 
If you want to argue overpriced friendlies in NFL stadiums then sure, absolutely. No argument there. But they are extremely smart about booking WCQs with peak atmosphere advantage in mind
 
Screamindemon3 said:
I’ve been to every home hexagonal WCQ since USA vs Costa Rica in 2009 and can 100% tell you that you’re wrong. You can choose to believe me or not, that’s fine, but you’re wrong.

Mexico can barely get fans into Columbus, the split is 90/10 at worst.
Costa Rica got no fans into Denver for Snowclassico and took over Red Bull arena (already addressed that in previous post, massive mistake by USSF)
Panama had no fans in Seattle
Honduras had little to none in San Jose and 0 in Salt Lake City
Panama had 1% of the stadium at best in Orlando
Jamaica doesn’t travel well outside of DC so of course they had no fans in Sporting KC

USSF has been spot on with every stadium choice in the last three cycles outside of RBA. Only 2 of those matches were in NFL stadiums and both matches saw less than 500 of the opposing nations fans.
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I believe you. You certainly have more experience than I do. I hope you continue to be right that we'll get a numbers advantage in our home schedule. It's a plus. Numbers isn't the only issue though. Our fans didn't have much effect in Nashville even with a huge numbers advantage. The answer is still on the pitch.
 
Fusiondad10 said:
I believe you. You certainly have more experience than I do. I hope you continue to be right that we'll get a numbers advantage in our home schedule. It's a plus. Numbers isn't the only issue though. Our fans didn't have much effect in Nashville even with a huge numbers advantage. The answer is still on the pitch.
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100%. The team killed the atmosphere just beating it around the backline and not getting forward. The crowd was quite electric and every section but 2 in the lower level stood the full 90. Opportunity wasted, and its on the players/coach. USSF did their job for this one, crowd was excellent and Canada had maybe 50 fans.
 
Looks/sounds like El Sal has more fans at BMO Field than the Canadians. 60/40 split at best.
 
 
But yeah, a 3-4-1-2 or a 3-5-2 (semantics at that point) seem much more likely. Maybe it’s starts off a bit defensive in the beginning until the crowd and pressure slag off a little bit.
 
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