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After USMNT flames out of the World Cup in loss to Belgium, here’s why it was ‘not US’

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On Monday night, USMNT’s manager Mauricio Pochettino‘s audacious rally cry “Why Not US” was unfortunately answered.

It’s because against Belgium, we stunk.

Not that we were looking for one. We just wanted to continue to feel the unity, momentum, awesome vibes and the belief, which Pochettino’s squad crop-dusted into the ether.

We had started to believe, perhaps naively, that our country’s moment on the pitch had arrived.

After beating Paraguay, Australia and Bosnia and being robbed in the final seconds by Turkey, maybe we’d finally become the force that the prophets promised.

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