Gary Lineker

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Pod Save America · Can Soccer Save the World? · 12 Jul 2026 podcast

I don't think so.

I mean, Belgium are always likely to beat the US.

It's not obviously your primary sport in this country.

You're on a road.

I think you're on a journey where football is growing and

in this country.

You've got a league now that's, you know, you've got one or two of the best players in the world, Messi's here.

So I think it is growing, but I've always wondered why in terms of FIFA, that they're so obsessed with trying to get America to be super interested in our sport.

Because if ever you are, if you ever get all your real athletes playing our game,

you might be bloody good, and that would be really irritating.

Well, I think, I remember being interviewed early on after the, before the tournament, and you're always asked, obviously, how the host nation will go, or one of the host nations, America, which, and I always said, if they got to the last 16,

I think that would be a really good effort.

I couldn't really seriously see them getting past anyone that was any good, like a proper big European team on the North African side.

But I thought the fact that they did so well in the group stage was a real plus for the States and the tournament as a whole, because you want the host nations doing reasonably well.

if i'm really honest rather than being diplomatic i would say that's as far as i ever saw them going you know and you know it's funny after that first game you talked about the panama game when they had that incredible first half and it was really good to see and i know mauricio really well pochettino and he's he's a delightful man and i'm really pleased for him for that

And it was a terrific performance.

All my American friends were coming at me and texting me and saying, you were wrong about us.

We're going to go all the way.

And I was going, mate, honestly, I know these World Cups and it's always the hope that kills you.

As soon as you start believing a little bit, it all goes wrong.

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