How Not To Win The World Cup

American Fiasco

WNYC Studios

Sports, Soccer, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.8 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2018

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Coming June 4: Join host Roger Bennett of Men in Blazers for this true tale of the U.S. men's soccer team's quest to conquer the 1998 World Cup. American Fiasco is a 12-part series based on over 30 interviews with the players, coaches, and media personalities who lived out this sporting descent into madness.

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0:00.0	Did the World Cup do large in your life as a kid?
0:07.6	All we were were fans.
0:08.8	It was unheard of.
0:09.8	I remember joking around and clicking my heels three times together like the Wizard of
0:14.2	Oz thinking can I go there?
0:15.9	Can we get to the World Cup?
0:17.6	When we walked out on the field we knew that we could beat anybody in the world.
0:24.1	I think anything was possible.
0:25.9	We were just like bringing on.
0:27.3	Let's conquer the world.
0:28.3	And we're going to come out and we're going to cut down your throat.
0:31.6	I truly believe that we were headed in a direction where we could beat anybody and that we could
0:39.1	win a World Cup.
0:41.4	From WNYC Studios comes the untold story of one of the most aspirational and delusional
0:48.4	teams in sports history.
0:53.6	And I get a call.
0:54.6	It's the White House calling.
0:56.4	I said we're going to win this game, aren't we?
0:58.9	The news is going around the world.
1:01.2	I couldn't wait to go out to terms.
1:02.7	I was not intimidated what's going on.
1:04.6	Iran was the ultimate heel right now.
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