This is why we play in Columbus, because we will have an American crowd.
If we play, did someone say, San Jose or San Diego/LA/Houston/Chicago/Miami , these games will get a lot of cheers for the Latin American teams, this has long been a problem.
US World Cups, World Cups we have been in, 1930 Semi Finals, losing to Argentina 6-1,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930_FIFA_World_Cup
, our player Goncalves I believe his name was was a real ace.
1934 World Cup, we played Mexico in Rome in a game immediately before the World Cup tournament but it might as well have been part of the Tournament.
1950 of course, We beat England.
Then we know, '90, '94, '98, '02 and '06.
We made some Olympics, at least our own in our own backyard, we played Italy at LA '84 which is a very good game I happened to get on video and Italy wins 1-0. Fine game, good sportsmanship and the networks didn't even quite have an announcer for it, it is just the game.
Mentioned in one of the last posts says similar to the USA having a good work rate, meaning running around but not always tops on talent.
I guess he is too old now, but I think one of our most talented players ever was McBride. Who knows... ? He sure could get the job done and Ching seems real efficient.
I think they even called the World Cup scenario something like Project 2010. Seemed a long way away back then.