One of the panelists was joking about the "I Believe That We Will Win" chant, doing it in a stereotypical American accent, and one of the others stopped him:
"No, I'm not having that. We love to make fun of Americans and their 'soccerball', and how they don't know anything about the sport, and everyone gets a good laugh at them. But they beat us in the group four years ago, and now they've gotten through a group with Germany, Portugal and Ghana. We got one point in our group. One. The US is still playing, and right now, the English need to shut up and maybe try to figure out why they are better at this sport than we are.
"And not only that, everyone mocks the Americans for being stupid about 'soccer', but if you talk to anyone in Brazil, they will tell you that no one has more fans there than the States, and no one chants louder than the American Outlaws. They've got Teddy Roosevelt down there, leading cheers.
"So I don't want to hear this crap about the US anymore. They are a part of the World Cup furniture right now, and we all better accept it"
Is it too early to start the countdown to 2018? Hopefully the excitement from this World Cup will last long enough for fans to pack the stadiums for friendlies and the eventual qualifying campaign for Russia. Americans have shown that we're fully behind our team and they gave us everything in return for four games. Not only that, but we've proven that we appreciate quality soccer as well. Every time a big club makes its way the States there's not an empty seat in the stadium. Quality aside, I had more fun watching this USA team than any European club team.
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