Jeff Rueter
speaker
461 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6 Jul
Jeff Rueter’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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For example, the NBA finals was still ongoing when Mexico and South Africa kicked off the tournament.
And even when the United States opened its tournament against Paraguay, there was a lot of the country that was still really focused on whether or not the New York Knicks would win for the first time in a quarter century, for example.
Right.
And so the general sports public shifted over after the Knicks won that championship and it became a much bigger deal.
I think that there was also some reluctance because a lot of Americans knew, yes, Lionel Messi in Argentina would be big.
England would make a run.
Spain, Portugal, France arrived in good
form.
But the United States, very few people knew what to expect.
When you hear the U.S.
men's national team hasn't advanced beyond the quarterfinal since 2002, they haven't advanced beyond the quarterfinal since 1930.
They haven't all these sorts of facts.
It's just, OK, well, they'll they'll have a couple of games and then they'll lose and then I'll just tune in for the final.
So there might have been a little reluctance to join before that, but I think they've really gotten there since then.
Midway through the World Cup cycle in 2024, the U.S.
made a coaching change.
They fired the predecessor, Greg Berhalter, who had led them in Qatar in 2022, and then replaced him with Maurizio Pochettino, who was an Argentinian who previously had coached Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea, Espanyol.
Yeah, yeah.
A big fish, certainly.
And somebody that would be expected to get this team to play to a higher standard than it had before.
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