Alexander Abnos

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

There is no obvious weakling in this group.

In fact, if we're asking that question, where's the obvious weakling in this group?

Maybe it's us.

Maybe we're the ones that everybody's looking forward to playing.

It could very easily be.

It's also kind of a toss up as to whether or not they can do it all the time consistently against the likes of Panama or Costa Rica, because those are tough games.

And one thing that I think is really important going into this tournament, blessing in the curse of being a host, they haven't played any qualifiers.

They've had basically no competitive games with the first choice squad.

They had the Gold Cup last summer, but that was mostly second choice reserves players that happened to be available and none of the players that were not available.

because the Club World Cup was happening at the same time.

So that prevented a lot of really key call-ups, which once again, I don't mean to repeat myself, just feeds into the notion that it's really hard to know what you're going to get out of this team.

Are they going to step up when the lights are the brightest or are they not?

It really depends.

They have the talent, but I don't know.

If you...

think that FIFA are bad at extracting the most amount of money possible out of the game of soccer in the United States, you have to kind of stand in awe of all of the various youth soccer associations that dot the landscape.

Because it's really, really something, the sort of system that they've built up.

And as to Landon's point about coaching, I would generally agree, but I will say...

if I may be optimistic about this for a moment, that it's changing.

All of this stuff is changing in a generally positive direction.

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