Sunday, June 27, 2010

Despite WCup loss, US soccer team scores a goal: making mainstream America care


World Cup fever swept the country on Saturday. When the USA-Ghana game ended, there was silence at the Globe Pub in Chicago and then a cheer for the defeated Americans. It was a scene repeated at bars across the country.

At the Highbury Pub in Milwaukee, Chris Engel, who recently helped start a Milwaukee chapter of the American Outlaws, said he was proud of how the Americans played and hoped fans would stick behind the team. "If you stop supporting your country just because you lose," he said, "this doesn't mean anything."

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