From Qatar to the U.S., millions watched and rooted for the U.S. men’s soccer team which defeated Iran one to zero. NBC’s Lindsey Reiser reports on how Americans remained glued to the TV enjoying the game despite political tensions between the two countries.
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Soccer is finally growing in the United States
@FEAR THE GHOST IN ME 😨 nope. Nascar is
@Chachi We call it soccer, get used to it.
Stop being a nation of liguisticjingosm
@Chachi Stop being a nation of linguisticjigosm
We call it soccer get used to it
We don’t have a problem with the word football
@FEAR THE GHOST IN ME 😨 It’s bad
@Sohi Gamer En Irlande, on dit football
GO GO USAAA
USA 🇺🇸
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There is absolutely no interest in it where I live lol.
I didn’t even know it was going on lol. That’s how irrelevant and boring it is.
@B Babbich what is pnw?
@Larry Buchannan #Linguistic Dictator ….wow what a term you used very inventive😆
@Larry Buchannan it is not both it is football and the sports you called football is rugby.
@sandipan mridha Yep, you are a liguistic dictator
We have the decency to accept your word. Don’t you think you should have the decency to accept ours?
We are not telling you to stop using your word. Why are you telling that to us
It is both Football and Soccer
You have your word and that is fine
We have our word and that is fine too
Have some decency
We have the decency to accept your word.
Don’t you think you should have the decency to accept ours?
@sandipan mridha No for us it is football
We have our word and you have yours. What is the bigdeal?
Different countries have different words for the same thing. It happens all the time.
That is how human beings have evolved
For us, it is Soccer. And that is fine
For you, it is football and that is fine too
We have the decency to accept your word. Don’t you think you should have the decency to accept ours?
This is so cringe
Who cares
Like your comment.
whatt?? L kid
you are so cringe
Americans forgot about AMERICAN football!!!!!
Cry more
It’s a weekday afternoon.
World Cup very very very biggest super bowl nothing comparassion
Football soccer is the most popular sport in the whole world is such the passion
that we had a war between two countries Honduras and El Salvador with more
than 6,000 dead. Go to England and you will find out the fanatism or go to Brazil
and Argentina.
6,000 deaths is not a flex
That’s Hillarious…!! In Bangladesh we also enjoy world cup football like Brazil-Argentina though our main sport is cricket.
I am not an Iranian but a Muslim from India.
I feel happy to see you guys happy 😊
Wishing Iran peace and better days. 🙏 (I’m not from USA. Somewhere else in Asia. )
Thank you!
You guys would dominate the sport if only you were as involved as other countries
You can enjoy both sports, but seriously, you have a large and diverse population with every possible body type, you have the talents, you have the infrastructure, the money, your place is intersting to live, so you can attract the best staff in the world and you have some loyal supporters. I hope 2026 will change your people’s mind. The USMNT and Canada are building teams for the next World cup, your players will be in their prime in 4 years.
Edit : the most important point : history has shown us how America is when they want to reach a goal, instopable.
@gastino I’d just like to add that I think the tide is turning in favor of soccer here. Like you said we have a wide and diverse population, and many of us are multi-sport players and fans ourselves. We are priming this country for an even stronger national team for 2026.
@Caesar Santizo If we play soccer as much as you, we would have kickd youras.
@Caesar Santizo Soccer is a boring and annoying sport anyway
Gooo America
I was worried by the collisions at full speed. It’s a miracle that no one was seriously hurt. I hope.
It’s great seeing the beautiful game catch on here in, America. It unites us in such a way that American Football can’t, because it’s literally us, versus the World.
Faxs
All these people have no jobs
Netherlands have never lost under Louis Van Gaal’s 3rd reign as the Dutch coach. It’s a big mt Rushmore to climb for USA
statistics mean nothing in WC, Argentina had a 36 games without losing streak and loss to Saudi Arabia, Italy had a huge lossless streak too a couple of years ago and failed completely to qualify for 2 World Cups in a row
USA can do it, i kinda like fans and players of football there, they have this underdog stuff as isnt even close to be the most popular sport
@Miguel Elgueta They can do it, but they likely will not. Sending you a handkerchief in advance!
Siuu
I feel happy to see you guys happy 😊😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
USA!🇺🇸
USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸
loved it
Cool …
I think they have a big chance against holland
That’s the spirit! 🍻👍
As a Dutch, I would say you do , we play garbage, it’s Fifty Fifty
@Don Givani lul niet zo uit je nek man 😀
@Micha De Graaf check de comments op nossport bij de samenvatting, 80 procent negatief over Oranje
@Don Givani Thanks for your support. I’m an American.
On paper, you guys are undoubtedly a better team than us
But this world cup has been full of surprises
I hope USA wins, as an American soccer fan.
But they play soccer ??
Wasn’t an easy game.
Congratulations, USA. Very well deserved!
GO USA!!!!!
From Ireland 🇮🇪 supporting USA 🇺🇸 in the World Cup
GO USA!!!!
Political tensions between Iran and USA??? Hardly, political…Iran is murdering, executing, raping, sodimizing, etc., young men and women. Threatening and using violent armed force against protestors of thei rigid islamic rule. Hatred of Irans ways is what it is about! Hatred of Russias, Chinas, N Koreas, etc., ways. Any country doing such things will be judged by Almighty God, Yeshua.
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She called it football
What does FIFA mean?
A lot of us do. The local club I support in MLS is Seattle Sounders Football Club winners of the CONCACAF Champions League. In Seattle we know there’s several sports called football but one which the whole world calls football. It’s not hard.
Soo??
@Jade Star But the majority call it soccer
Still finished behind us
Football FEVER indeed! We are going all the way!
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Go USA! Cheering up for my nation from Africa!!!!
Iran are not pushovers by any means. This was a significant achievement.
Go wild USA …..
Don’t worry you’ll lose Saturday against the Dutch.
I’ll be back here to troll you when we don’t.
Hopefully, we won’t
Iran was a better team but needed one goal to go through. Oh well France will automatically win 🥇 it all.
Give this AMERICAN Reporter a raise
She said “Football Fever”
😭😭
@Carlos Flores We say soccer, get used to it
Stop being a nation of linguistic jingosm
Stop being a nation of linguisticbigotry
@Larry Buchannan Football anyways
@Carlos Flores For us it is soccer
For you it is football
have some decency
Stop forcing other people to use your word
Stop behaving like a linguisticdictator
When we have the decency to accept your word, why can’t you develop the decency to accept ours?
Learn some civlzd behavior
@Larry Buchannan 😂 Okay 🤭
@Carlos FloresStop being a nation of linguisticdictators
Stop being a nation of linguisticbigotry
Learn some decency
Learn some civlzd behavior
When we have the decency to accept your word, why can’t you have the decency to accept ours?
When we have the decency to say “It’s both football and soccer’ why are you being so rude and mannerless and saying ‘It not soccer, it is football?’
Africa is going to win the world cup 🎉
Fútbol, fútbol, fútbol
hurts to watch this and see mexico loose..
Good to see it catching on finally over there! 2026 World Cup in USA, Canada and Mexico will be great 🎉
pull the plug. barbarians should not be honored with visits from civilized peoples.
Watching the game at the Mall of Qatar with a lot of Iranian fans was priceless! 🇺🇸🇺🇸
I’m glad Americans start enjoying football again. And getting better and better as a team. All the best from Poland.
Most enjoying America
GO USA!!!
Go Netherlands 🇳🇱
Thank god, there was no US invasion of Iran🤣
Strong brain use the brain
United States and football. America is a huge continent and soccer is 🏈
Good to see this enthusiasm and now in all the games you must keep carrying on.
Can’t wait for 2026
US beating Netherlands is a real miracle but alas,anything is possible in soccer/football.
It’s absolutely nowhere near a miracle. Anyone in the football world know the US can go toe to toe with the Netherlands nowadays. This is not the Holland of the past. The US can take on this Dutch side any day.
@Mr. Fil-Am well we will see about that 😏
lovely crazy football 😍
congrats usa 💗
note : i saw usa team got alot of energy and speed and my advice use speed and energy in the right moments not all 90 min !
lets go soccer
Glad to see the States are getting into proper sports 🙂
Mountain america
World championship let’s see how they fear Saturday going up against the best of the best
the game is football
Youngest team in the tournament and the youngest captain of the tournament. WE BELIEVE IN YOU BOYS!
Last 10 min of that game was insane, had me nervous
Soccer!
You never hear anyone talk about football in America until the world cup 🙄
One of the reasons might be that our domestic league is not top tier. Yes, we have some aging stars playing here but until the league here is known then it will be talked about. And then you have to take into effect American arrogance who dont like nothing that they are not good at
@Ernest Zurita huh, I hadn’t thought of the first one. You may very well be right. Were im at there’s a team an hour away but no one ever wants to go to a match with me. Then the world cup rolls around and they’re in jerseys and hats etc. I played all through high school. Sure was fun but your right, I wasn’t very good😆
Netherlands are playing poorly, you guys have a chance to defeat them, at I enjoyed more your games than Holand games 😡
Where saving energy for when the real fun starts. Group was practice matches
Although I don’t care if it’s called soccer in the US as it has many names in the world. Thank you NBC for calling it football.
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I hope they won’t feel too sad once Netherlands beats them in the next round!
GO USA!!!!!!
cogratulation USA VERY WELL
And then come the Dutch 💪🏼🇳🇱 USA will get asswhooped
literally every team in this group i would have supported if it wasn’t for england being in it :P…. i mean literally i don’t know about half the countries in the tournament but all of these i would have supported for the result, technically i would have gone for wales they are part of the UK of course but so glad for the americans wow… i always knew these guys would be a problem once they started to get interested in football
group of death as they said, wow
we call it soccer, get used to it.
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Seriously, if the U.S. wins the world cup this year, OMG, goodbye American football game, hello soccer!! Soccer is way more fun and better sport than football. Trust me!! There is a reason why the whole freaking world plays soccer. It is the greatest sport in the world. Hands down!! Let’s go U.S.A!!
Americans must not confuse football with soccer, though.
In Europe, football and soccer are the same. Whereas in the US, soccer is that round ball while football is that orange-red pigskin oval ball.
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SE TRATANDO DE FUTEBOL (SOCCER) OS AMERICANOS NUNCA SERÃO NINGUÉM
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American can’t use their feet, they good with their hands in sport.
USA could’ve had nine points in the group. They were the better team against Wales and England, hopefully they go into the second round with no fear.
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