Biggest USMNT Games on Home Soil since WC 1994

Idk maybe because it'll be against the best player in the world and one of the top nations in the world in a tournament that is essentially for the bragging rights of the west.

The only team that didn't take this seriously was Brazil and that's bc they had the Olympics.

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What else stacks up?

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Copa is really the only tournament where a big meaningful game can take place on US soil outside of WCQ. Even then, with Brazil not taking the tournament seriously, it kind of puts a damper on it.

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I think this semifinal is bigger than all of those.

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I'm enjoying this tournament, but all the winner gets is a trophy - not a qualification to a larger tournament.

For that, I'd say WCQs against Mexico and Costa Rica are bigger.

Bc we're going to qualify for the WC. We're certainly going to make it to the hex. The whole point of the qualifiers and making the WC is to play meaningful games against the worlds best on an international stage. That's what we're being afforded Tuesday.

Yes the WC is a much much bigger deal than this copa America. But again I don't know why we keep degrading our own accomplishments by calling it a fake copa. Everyone but Brazil brought their A teams and is putting in seemingly maximum effort. Suarez almost strangled his head coach bc they wouldn't put him in. Sanchez almost yelled at a teammate until deafness for giving up a goal. It's as real a tournament as the confed cup or whenever we guest play at the "real" copa. This is a chance to win silverware

I'm not agreeing with that statement. But just bc it's not a standard tournament doesn't mean it's automatically lower than every other competitive game. Again qualifiers are important as a whole, but not every individual one is huge. In fact very few are HUGE games.

Secondly I don't think this Copa is any less important than the Confed Cup. They're both "semi real" tournaments

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Americans don't give a shite about qualifiers

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American soccer fans give a lot of shits about qualifying.

So much American soccer inferiority complex in here. Shame. None of you pussies would look one of our players in the eye and tell them this tournament doesn't matter.

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Why the frick would a fake copa America semifinal that holds no meaning be more important than a WCQ? You are all living in the moment

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and here it is folks, the dumbest post in the history of the SB. we are playing argentina, at full strength, in in a competitive match, as part of a major historical tournament, and this mother fricker is acting like we are playing tahiti in a friendly.

You can have a big game without it being the biggest game. This tournament doesn't hold a fricking candle to the World Cup as far as public attention. We played in a game two months ago that could have prevented us from playing in the World Cup. That game could have fricking DESTROYED soccer in the US. How is that not more important than this upcoming game, which will be fun and great if we win, but have literally zero repercussions if we lose?

I have a feeling we are looking at the 4-0 result and acting like that game wasn't enormous in hindsight. Which is a crock of lies. That game aside, there have been plenty of home qualifiers against Mexico that were bigger as well.