Alexander Abnos

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Football Weekly · Is the USA ready for the World Cup? – Football Weekly podcast · 13 May 2026 podcast

Granted, Club World Cup is a very different traveling sort of identity of fan that you get than the World Cup, but we didn't really see it happening.

I think ICE is way more likely to operate in places that are where not quite so many cameras are, basically.

If you were to be scared of ICE while traveling in the United States of America for the World Cup,

I would be more scared of them away from the stadiums when you're just out and having an otherwise lovely time.

Yeah, that's about right.

I mean, quarterfinals would be more knockout wins than they've ever had before.

So sure, let's go with that.

Yeah, they beat Paraguay 2-1, they beat Australia 2-1, and they did lose to Turkey and looked very much second best to Turkey.

You could debate as to whether or not it's a good or a bad thing, but I think it's just so fascinating that how often does that happen?

Like the three teams that you have to face in your World Cup group are teams that you have faced like within very recent living memory of every single person on the squad and the coach.

The thing with the U.S.

is you just really don't know what sort of performance you're going to get out of them on a game-to-game basis from Mauricio Pochettino.

They've had really high highs.

They've looked amazing in a 5-1 win against Uruguay.

Granted, all of these are friendly, so who knows how much stock you can really put in them.

Or most of them are friendlies anyway.

They've also looked extremely bad during the 4-0 loss to Switzerland just before the Gold Cup last year.

Putting expectations on this group at any point is really, really difficult.

And this squad in particular just seems so erratic.

I really struggle to know what they're going to do with this group because you're right.

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