The World Cup is a global eclipse it's been called that just cast its shadow across the

whole world for an entire month at the same time, everywhere, apart from America.

Let's Roger Bennett. What's he do for a living?

My wife asked me the same question. I sit in front of a television, watch a lot of football

and shout at that television, thinking it will impact events as they're unfurling thousands

of miles for me. Bennett grew up in Liverpool but he's pretty American by now. In fact, he just

became a citizen. I arrived here right before the 1994 World Cup.

You market by the World Cup, then. Yeah, my whole life there they give me the spine of my

whole, whenever someone gives me a year, I immediately back it up to the nearest World Cup

and I'm able to locate myself my emotional memory by that nearest World Cup.

Bennett is co-host of Men in Blazers, a podcast and TV enterprise devoted to the sport known

as, well, it depends. Here's another Brit turned American, Stefan Schminsky.

Well, everybody in America calls it soccer and a lot of people think that this is a word

that comes from the United States, but actually it's an English word coined in the 1890s at

Oxford University and up until the 1970s it was a perfectly acceptable word. However,

in recent years, Brit's have decided that they think soccer is a terrible word and that

you Americans should stop using it and start calling it football instead and that's completely

absurd. Okay, back to Roger Bennett. He's also the host of a new podcast about the 1998

US men's national team. One minute they thought they were going to win the World Cup. The next

minute they were humiliated. This new podcast about the old team is called American Fiasco.

But even Roger Bennett, a soccer savant, couldn't have known how well that title would fit this

year's US team. For the first time since 1986, this year's team failed to qualify for the World Cup

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