Or the shock of the 1-0 win that had qualified the U.S. soccer team for a World Cup for the first time in four decades. Now it’s hard to imagine a World Cup without the U.S., one of only seven countries to play in the last seven tournaments. (Kevork Djansezian / Associated Press)“We have a generation that expects us to go to every single World Cup. “I lived in the era where it wasn’t realistic to think, ‘Oh, we can make to the World Cup,’ ” he said. “It seems to us that in the event we didn’t qualify for the World Cup, we wouldn’t be hosting the World Cup,” Caligiuri said.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 05, 2017 01:30 UTC