I Love International Football, So You Don’t Have To
I understand, sort of, why seemingly every Sunderland fan I interact with at best tolerates and at worst loathes international football.
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- I’ve also attended a handful of Mexico matches not involving the USMNT, and let me tell you, tailgating with Mexico fans is something everyone should experience.
- But I spent a good portion of my football watching life waiting impatiently for the next World Cup and the next U.S.
- When I told them I wanted to play football, I was met mostly with confusion.
The only football videos I’ve watched more in my life are Dan Ballard and Tommy Watson’s goals I’ve been to 10 senior USMNT matches, only once in a city I lived in at the time, and saw live two of the best non-World Cup wins in the program’s history.
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- It's the international break, so it's time to step into the Wayback Machine.
- RUSTENBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - June 12: Robert Green of England Buries His Head After Clanger in incident during the 2010 FIFA World Cup Group C match between England and Usa at Royal Bafokeng Stadium on June 12, 2010 in Rustenburg, South Africa.
- pic.twitter.com/qTlo3205bD — Mang The Ram (@mangtheram) November 12, 2026 No, I didn’t attend the World Cup this year due to the aforementioned greed, and that’ll probably haunt me for awhile.
- Denver, Colorado, had an indoor team for two years in the early 80s and then a pre-Major League Soccer club that played at a local high school in the early 90s.
- I watched from a laundromat in 2002 when Torsten Bleepin’ Frings cheated to keep us from tying Germany in the quarterfinals.
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