I feel like some soccer fans of other countries are missing a lot of context in their annoyance with American confidence about the World Cup.
The vast majority of us don’t actually think we’re gonna win the whole thing. Even those of us who know very little about soccer know enough to understand our small chances.
But that doesn’t matter. You’re talking about a nation built on a steady diet of believing anything’s possible.
We don’t care about odds. We care about winning. And in service to that mindset, we are more than happy to buy into a suspension of logic and rational thinking.
The thought of being in a competition and not believing we can win it, even in defiance of odds, is incomprehensible to us.
But moreover, what do we lose in believing we can win in a sport that has a mere of fraction of our emotional investment in other sports?
Not a damn thing. We’ve already exceeded our own expectations, so why not push for more?
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