It could be that if they ever win the FIFA World Cup trophy they can for first time actually claim to really be world champions of a sport played outside of America
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. . . For the Yanks are coming,
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/56387717
Interesting piece. Two attitudes have always existed regarding this scenario:
1. It'll never happen (Americans).
2. It's inevitable (rest of the world).
It could be that if they ever win the FIFA World Cup trophy they can for first time actually claim to really be world champions of a sport played outside of America
It's true, of course. "The World Series" is one of the great misnomers.
It will be interesting to see how Americans (and I am one, incidentally, having received my citizenship in 1994), will react should basketball attain the global reach it is working for. Will there ever be a competitive basketball World Cup, and if there is, will Americans embrace this threat to their preeminence or will they treat it as an oddity, much as I look upon the FIFA Club World Cup?
Apart from Canada, the teams looking to dominate men's football over the next 10 years (England, France, USA) are the teams that have been dominant in women's football over recent years.
The USA have been Olympic rugby union champions for years and years.
I looked it up
1920 and 1924 Olympic gold medalists
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugb...ummer_Olympics
Thank you for the reference
Ya, but, ya, We been champions in this sport since 1920
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._in_tug_of_war
Even so. Winning a gold medal doesn’t equate to being World champion of a team sport.
Isn't it called the World Series after the American newspaper "The World" which sponsored the event?