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Men in Blazers 10/11/18: USMNT WCQ Failure Retrospective Special

Men In Blazers

Men In Blazers

Soccer, Mib, Football, Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.85.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2018

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

One year after the USMNT's failure to qualify for the World Cup, Rog takes the temperature of football in America and we relive "The Morning After the Night Before" against Trinidad and Tobago. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

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0:26.9

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0:56.9

The worst possible nightmare that the US hadn't made the 2018 World Cup.

1:03.0

Only to realise, it was no dream.

1:06.5

It was a reality.

1:07.5

We had all stood in front of our television screens, in throat constricted disbelief as the

1:13.3

seconds ticked down, and then father-mobile racker results went against us.

1:19.1

And the shell-shot Bruce Arena could only watch his squad flounder impotently around

1:24.6

the field.

1:25.9

Is that reality kicked in on October the 11th?

1:29.8

It was humbling.

1:32.5

It was humiliating and it was enraging in equal measure.

1:37.0

At the time, we really did.

1:38.8

It felt full on darkness on the edge of town.

1:41.8

Our players hadn't just deprived themselves of the life experience of the glory of competing

1:47.7

in the World Cup.

1:49.0

Worst, they'd imperiled the very growth of the game that we all love in the United States.

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