How Many Times Has Usa Won The World Cup

The United States men's national team has had its fair share of landmark moments in its 100-year history, but one moment that can top them all would be the lifting of the Jules Rimet Trophy at the climax of the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

Winning a trophy that in one case seemed totally out of reach would cease off an amazing run that Jurgen Klinsmann's club have taken u.s.a. on since the High german took over for Bob Bradley in 2011.

Klinsmann's engagement came at the perfect time for a hungry American squad that suffered utter disappointment at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa afterward experiencing sheer jubilation in the same tournament.

3 years ago, the ii nearly recognizable faces in American soccer back then—and still to this date— Landon Donovan and Clint Dempsey, delivered a moment that fans of the Yanks will never forget.

Donovan's stoppage time grouping-clinching goal against Algeria sent Americans into a spell of dramatic celebrations that were worthy of a very patriotic YouTube montage that incensed fifty-fifty the casual American fan with a sense of pride in their national soccer team.

Unfortunately, the dream ended in South Africa for the Americans three days later confronting Republic of ghana in extra time, and all of sudden the traction gained by the national team—and the sport itself—in the States was erased.

So, just imagine the excitement level around the nation if Dempsey, Donovan and new, bright stars like Jozy Altidore and Michael Bradley advance past the round of sixteen this time—and further on into uncharted waters—which would exist considered the semifinals and eventually the final.

Treading water in those uncharted waters has not been the goal of the Klinsmann regime, but going into those waters and coming out every bit a battle-tested side that will make any nation in the world fearfulness them is.

The United States squad is playing with a ruthless mentality that no side before them has shown. Instead of being content with winning past a goal or two, Klinsmann has constantly urged his players to get forward and by multiple goals.

If there is one thing we have learned well-nigh the coincidental American soccer fan, it is that they love goals and absolutely dread goalless draws.

That same soccer-viewing public is a finicky agglomeration that are quick to criticize every move and even quicker to celebrate the achievements of their national team, which has left them heartbroken and disappointed on numerous occasions.

Winning a World Cup would send that part of the American population into a celebration for the ages that they volition remember for the remainder of their lives.

But, what about the rest of the population that would not be able to point out Dempsey or Donovan if they were standing 2 feet away from them on a street corner?

What about the group of people that U.Due south. Soccer and its domestic production Major League Soccer accept been trying to attain out to for decades?

Well, to be brutally honest, the only fashion that section of the public would pay attending to the United States men'southward national team legitimately is if they leave the Estadio do Maracana in Rio de Janiero with a bays.

American fans expect their national teams to be the best at everything, and non to audio brash or cocky, only most of our teams are the best at what they do.

Every time an Olympics is held, the tiptop medal-getter at the global competition is expected to exist the United States. If that goal is not accomplished, the Olympic team as a whole is looked down upon.

Inside that group of Olympians, among enough of talented individual athletes, are the men's and women's basketball teams that possess the world's best players in that sport. Both of those teams have been highly successful at the Olympics and draw a respectable audition whenever a gold medal is on the line, which is commonly every 4 years.

If nosotros were to relate this concept to the sport of soccer itself, the perfect example of this is the United States women'due south national team.

For nigh of the last two decades, the U.S. women have been the best squad in the earth, but they have been pushed to the back burner because they have not won at the sport's highest level since 1999.

Everybody remembers the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup and a certain celebration from the penalty spot at the left end of the Rose Bowl past Brandi Chastain.

The image of Chastain overcome with joy afterward scoring the winning penalisation confronting Mainland china is one that volition always resonate with the American sports fan.

Currently, the American men do not take a moment like that, although some could argue that Donovan's goal in 2010, the win over England at the 1950 World Loving cup and the famous "Dos a Cero" victory over United mexican states in February of 2001 in Columbus, Ohio, are amidst some of the all-time American soccer moments ever.

However, afterward the gilded generation of American women took abode the championship in 1999, interest in the sport kept falling off, especially when the team was unable to repeat as champions in 2003.

Yes, there accept been Olympic gilded medals and numerous minor trophies won by the women of Team United states of america e'er since, just to exist honest, neither they nor the men will be relevant to the entire American public until a World Loving cup is won.

While the interest in the men'south game is completely different than the women's game at this moment in time, which is unfortunate given the superb talent on the women's side of the sport, the total involvement in American soccer will never be at that place until the men achieve the ultimate goal.

We in America like to be the best at everything, and we carry an immeasurable sense of pride with that title.

To be the all-time in the game of soccer, and to affair to an unabridged nation, not to only the fans of the game, you have to win the World Cup.

Winning the World Cup is a feat that no one ever believed would be possible for the U.s., but with a 12-game winning streak in hand, and some of the best players the nation has ever produced playing at a high level, it is something that is not out of the picture next summertime.

If that momentous occasion does happen adjacent summer in Brazil, you meliorate believe that the beautiful game, known as soccer to united states of america hither in the United states of america of America, volition have finally arrived for good, and information technology will never disappear from the national radar ever once again, like it did in 1999.

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