United States men’s national soccer team
The United States men’s national soccer team represents the United States in men’s international soccer competitions. The team has appeared in ten FIFA World Cups, including the first in 1930, where they reached the semi-finals. The U.S. won six Gold Cups, and has achieved a fourth-place finish in two Copa Américas. The United States will co-host the 2026 FIFA World Cup along with Canada and Mexico.
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The United States men’s national soccer team represents the United States in men’s international soccer competitions. The team has appeared in ten FIFA World Cups, including the first in 1930, where they reached the semi-finals. The U.S. won six Gold Cups, and has achieved a fourth-place finish in two Copa Américas. The United States will co-host the 2026 FIFA World Cup along with Canada and Mexico. The first U. S. national team was constituted in 1885, when it played Canada in the first international match held outside the United Kingdom. The national team spent the mid-to-late mid-20th century as one of the greatest upsets in the history of the World Cup. The current head coach is Gregg Berhalter, since November 29, 2018. Earnie Stewart is the team’s General Manager since August 1, 2018, and he has been in charge of the team since July 1, 2013. The last time the team won a major international tournament was the 2010 CONCACAF Gold Cup, which they won. The most recent major tournament they won was the 2009 Confederations Cup, in which they beat Spain in the final, but lost to Brazil in the finals. They also won the Copa américa in 2010, but were eliminated in the quarter-finals by Chile. They have won the Gold Cup three times, most recently in the 2016 edition, when they beat Chile 5–2. The only other time they won the tournament was in the 1990s, when the team beat Mexico 4–2 in the semifinal, but they lost to Italy 7–1 in the round of 16.
They were eliminated from the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin after losing their first match 3–1 against Spain at Independência Stadium Belo Horizonte. In their third game of the tournament, they beat England in an exhibition match 6–1, but then lost 1–0 against England in the second round. The 1950 World Cup in Brazil was the next World Cup appearance for the U. S. as it withdrew in 1938 and the tournament wasn’t held again until 1950. It would be four decades before the U-S. would make another appearance in the tournament in the late 1980s. In the 2002 World Cup, the team lost to Germany in the knockout stage. In November 2006, FIFA announced that it had accepted evidence that Bert Patenaude scored all three goals against Paraguay, and was thus the first person to score a hat trick in a World Cup; there was no third place game. In 1986, using the overall tournament records in 1986, FIFA credited the U S. with a third-places finish ahead of fellow semi-finalist Yugoslavia. This remains the U S team’s best World Cup result, and is the highest finish of any team from outside of South America and Europe. The 2014 World Cup saw the U S. team finish fourth in the competition, with a loss to Chile in the semifinals.
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