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The Long Game: U.S. Men's Soccer and Its Savage, Four-Decade Journey to the Top, or Thereabouts Denny S. Bryce Oliver has become a TikTok/BookTokThe gripping account of the U. S. mens national soccer teams winding saga from obscurity to the global stage as they stand on the brink of a seminal World Cup in 2026 For almost half a century, the U. S. mens national team existed on the fringes of world soccerout of sight, out of mind, and, more often than not, out of the World Cup. Between 1950 and 1990, the program toiled in irrelevance, a collection of part timers playing before empty bleachers.