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Key takeaways
- All over the United States, for college teams and pro teams, big teams and small teams, good teams and bad teams, there are followers who believe -- truly believe -- that joy will come in the morning.
- But for the U.S. men's national team, it has always been different.
- For some, it might be the relative superiority that Americans have in other sports compared with soccer.
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Belief. Hope. Trust. All over the United States, for college teams and pro teams, big teams and small teams, good teams and bad teams, there are followers who believe -- truly believe -- that joy will come in the morning.
But for the U.S. men's national team, it has always been different.
No one can say for sure why. For some, it might be the relative superiority that Americans have in other sports compared with soccer. For others, it might be the lack of a mainstream international star. A sizable group is universally cynical about a game that's more popular everywhere else in the world than it is here.
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