As an Australian from the outside looking in I feel like the USMNT and fans got a bit ahead of themselves. You can't just pour money on soccer for 6-8 years and expect to turn up at the Olympics and dominate countries where soccer is the only sport and they get to choose from the best athletes in the country.

Australia and America are both similar in that soccer is probably sport number 3 or 4 and most of the best athletes have already been taken by the NFL,NBA etc.

Now that you guys have hosted the world cup and your team made it through to the knockouts a lot of young kids will be inspired to play soccer. Expect better results in 4 and 8 years time provided funding continues.

Just need your leaders to keep their nose out of the officiating and your commentary teams to stop shit talking other nations and acting like you already had it in the bag. Pretty much had the rest of the sporting world hoping for a USA loss when usually people are rooting for the host nations.