MOSCOW, RUSSIA - JUNE 17: Hirving Lozano of Mexico celebrates after scoring his team's first goal during the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia group F match between Germany and Mexico at Luzhniki Stadium on June 17, 2018 in Moscow, Russia. (Photo by David Ramos - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)
It's been a week since the World Cup started in Russia, and let's get this straight.
So, um . . .
Team USA really isn't there?
When it comes to embarrassing moments in sports, this is Lucy yanking her football away from Charlie Brown combined with that baseball ricocheting off Jose Canseco's head for a home run and nearly any season for the New Jersey/Brooklyn Nets.
This still doesn't make sense. Well, it does, because despite a huge financial commitment in this country to soccer and the sport booming in the strangest places, the U.S. national team blew it two years ago by starting the final round of World Cup qualifying with consecutive losses to Mexico and Costa Rica. That got Jurgen Klinsmann fired and Bruce Arena rehired as manager of the Americans, but Arena resigned in October 2017 after his team was eliminated from this year's World Cup play with a ridiculous loss to Trinidad and Tobago.
In case you're wondering, Trinidad and Tobago are one team, but it probably felt like several of them to Team USA after it failed to reach a World Cup for the first time since 1986.
Now Americans are forced to imagine what could have been for their squad while watching a World Cup filled with intrigue, and not just because they're running out of beer in Moscow. The Russians are coming. The Russians are coming. Not only that, but the Russians are winning in shocking fashion. They've ignored their No. 70 ranking by soccer's global governing body called FIFA, and they've managed opening World Cup victories against Saudi Arabia and Egypt by a combined score of 8-1.
MOSCOW, RUSSIA - JUNE 17: Hirving Lozano of Mexico celebrates after scoring his team's first goal during the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia group F match between Germany and Mexico at Luzhniki Stadium on June 17, 2018 in Moscow, Russia. (Photo by David Ramos - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)
It's been a week since the World Cup started in Russia, and let's get this straight.
So, um . . .
Team USA really isn't there?
When it comes to embarrassing moments in sports, this is Lucy yanking her football away from Charlie Brown combined with that baseball ricocheting off Jose Canseco's head for a home run and nearly any season for the New Jersey/Brooklyn Nets.
This still doesn't make sense. Well, it does, because despite a huge financial commitment in this country to soccer and the sport booming in the strangest places, the U.S. national team blew it two years ago by starting the final round of World Cup qualifying with consecutive losses to Mexico and Costa Rica. That got Jurgen Klinsmann fired and Bruce Arena rehired as manager of the Americans, but Arena resigned in October 2017 after his team was eliminated from this year's World Cup play with a ridiculous loss to Trinidad and Tobago.
In case you're wondering, Trinidad and Tobago are one team, but it probably felt like several of them to Team USA after it failed to reach a World Cup for the first time since 1986.
Now Americans are forced to imagine what could have been for their squad while watching a World Cup filled with intrigue, and not just because they're running out of beer in Moscow. The Russians are coming. The Russians are coming. Not only that, but the Russians are winning in shocking fashion. They've ignored their No. 70 ranking by soccer's global governing body called FIFA, and they've managed opening World Cup victories against Saudi Arabia and Egypt by a combined score of 8-1.
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