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\u201cBelieve\u201d has long been part of the U.S. soccer chant. Suddenly, it feels true. (Ted S. Warren\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

IRVINE, Calif. \u2014 Like a spark jumping from one piece of kindling to the next, belief rarely stays confined to where it begins.<\/p>

Read more Congo, Algeria become 8th and 9th African teams to make the World Cup round of 32<\/a><\/p>\n

For the U.S. men\u2019s national team, it seems to have started with a fiery Argentine coach unconcerned with this country\u2019s middling soccer history, unbothered by its lack of star power.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy not us?\u201d Mauricio Pochettino asked when the U.S. roster was revealed last month. \u201cI think it\u2019s important to believe.\u201d<\/p>\n

From there, it radiated outward, engulfing a roster of players from different backgrounds<\/a>, different leagues<\/a> and different stages of their careers<\/a>. And because belief can be infectious, it has only accelerated from there.<\/p>\n

Now, as the Americans prepare for their first knockout round game of this World Cup, on Wednesday against Bosnia in Santa Clara, fans are asking themselves the same question: After years of false starts and near misses, after promising teams that couldn\u2019t quite break through, after the stunning failure to even qualify in 2018 and the encouraging-but-incomplete run four years later, is it finally safe to believe?<\/p>\n

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Folarin Balogun\u2018s arrival is fueling hope the U.S. can keep finding the back of the net. (Patrick T. Fallon\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

\u201cWhether I\u2019d call it magic, I\u2019m not sure. But there\u2019s definitely a belief we have,\u201d said Folarin Balogun, the striker who scored two goals in the Americans\u2019 opening match.<\/p>\n

The U.S. team has earned that belief through three group play matches that not only secured points but also expanded the imagination. Advancing to the knockout round always seemed reasonable for this squad, especially on home soil and with a roster filled with players from high-level clubs. But the way the Americans have played has changed the conversation.<\/p>\n

They cruised through matches against Paraguay and Australia, winning their group with a match to spare. They lost a meaningless game on Thursday against Turkey on a last-minute goal<\/a>, but players say it had no effect on the momentum they carry into the Bosnia showdown.<\/p>\n

They have played with a purpose and panache, but the more compelling evidence has come in how the Americans have looked. They have been patient. They have moved the ball crisply. They controlled possession for 63 percent of each of their first two matches and more than half of their third. They have shown depth, balance and a surprising number of ways to trouble opponents. Balogun has looked like a striker with a hunter\u2019s instincts. Christian Pulisic, still the straw that stirs the drink, returned from injury in Thursday\u2019s loss and still looks sharp<\/a>. Tim Ream, the 38-year-old captain, has supplied calm and valuable experience. Alex Freeman, 21 years old and unbothered by the moment, scored against Australia.<\/p>\n

There has been luck, too, because every team that makes a World Cup run needs some. The Americans benefited from own goals in each of their first two matches, the sort of fortunate bounce that can make a tournament feel as if it is beginning to tilt in your direction. But teams also tend to make their own luck near goal. They create chaos. They force defenders into uncomfortable choices.<\/p>\n

Longtime supporters are allowing themselves to imagine a deeper run than they would have dared a month ago. Casual fans who couldn\u2019t pick Pulisic out of a lineup are using lunch breaks to play 4D Tetris with knockout-round pathways, trying to determine how far this thing could possibly go.<\/p>\n

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He believes in the U.S. and his perspiration control. (Lee Smith\/Reuters)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n
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A bruising win over Australia showed fans the U.S. can win in different ways. (Steven Bisig\/Imagn Images\/Reuters)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s the point of playing if you can\u2019t dream of winning it,\u201d said Korey Donahoo, co-founder of the American Outlaws supporters\u2019 group. \u201cIf you asked me before the tournament started, I knew we weren\u2019t winning the World Cup. But halfway through the Australia game, I was thinking, \u2018Crazier things have happened.\u2019 I looked around and everyone had the same look I did. A lot of skeptics have been won over.\u201d<\/p>\n

Julie Foudy, the U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer and analyst, knows what it feels like when a World Cup run on home soil gathers force. She was part of the U.S. women\u2019s team that won the 1999 World Cup, a tournament that started as a sporting event and ended as a national celebration.<\/p>\n

\u201cSimilar to \u201899, you feel it. You feel it building,\u201d she said. \u201cYou wonder how the country is going to respond. And then when they do, it\u2019s just this amazing joy because everyone\u2019s locked in on what you\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unlike the U.S. women, the American men have never been a world power expected to challenge the sport\u2019s giants. That\u2019s what makes this sudden rush of possibility feel so unfamiliar.<\/p>\n

History, of course, has no bearing on what happens next. A few flashes of brilliance can loosen the grip of heartbreak, disappointment and frustration.<\/p>\n

\u201cFandom is itself an act of faith,\u201d said Paul Putz, the director of Baylor University\u2019s Faith & Sports Institute, and it asks something challenging: \u201cto decide that you as an observer are going to give yourself to the team, to the game. You\u2019re going to allow yourself to be caught up in that moment.\u201d<\/p>

Read more Iran narrowly knocked out of tumultuous World Cup on Austria\u2019s last-second goal<\/a><\/p>\n

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Group play watch parties were festive. Knockout round parties may be tense. (Reed Hoffmann\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n
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The tarps were off at the FIFA Fan Zone on the National Mall last week. (Al Drago\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

New York Knicks fans proved that this month, after more than a half-century of teasing finally gave way to an NBA championship. The long wait did not cheapen the belief. It deepened the joy.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the bargain. Fans choose hope even though most tournaments end with somebody else holding the trophy.<\/p>\n

For most of the national team\u2019s modern history, reaching the knockout round has been treated less like a checkpoint than an achievement. The United States has never arrived at a World Cup with the burden of expectation; its best finish remains a third-place showing in the inaugural World Cup in 1930, a 13-team tournament from another era. After that, the sport struggled for decades to find a foothold here, and the United States failed to qualify for nine straight World Cups from 1954 through 1986.<\/p>\n

The modern era brought progress but rarely dominance. The United States hosted the World Cup in 1994 and discovered that maybe it belonged. It reached the quarterfinals in 2002, still the program\u2019s high-water mark in the contemporary era. There were famous goals, brave performances and enough encouraging moments for supporters to convince themselves that the breakthrough was always just one cycle away.<\/p>\n

Mark Spacone, who <\/b>co-founded Sam\u2019s Army, an early fan group, remembers watching the United States beat Colombia in 1994. He drove around Buffalo, waving an American flag and honking the horn as if trying to alert the rest of the city that something important had happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince \u201994, every American fan understands that we have decent players that play this game,\u201d said Spacone, \u201cand it\u2019s just a matter of putting it all together.\u201d<\/p>\n

That has always been the strange burden of American soccer fandom. The national team became good enough to make the tournament, and to make fans imagine what might happen if everything clicked. But it was never good enough to make a deep run feel realistic.<\/p>\n

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Sports fandom is a leap of faith, supporters say. (Kevin Ng\/Imagn Images\/Reuters)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n
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Despite U.S. teams\u2019 history in the World Cup, fans continue to show up, even at training sessions. (Jamie Squire\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

That is the emotional inheritance this year\u2019s squad carries: not disbelief but belief wrapped in bubble wrap.<\/p>\n

That is what players seem to be describing as they\u2019ve navigated the early stages of this tournament, a quiet belief the players have had through friendly matches and strenuous training sessions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve had this belief. It\u2019s been something that\u2019s been growing ever since Mauricio took over, and we\u2019re just trying to keep it going,\u201d said U.S. player Sebastian Berhalter, who had a goal and an assist against Turkey.<\/p>\n

But there is a difference between saying all the right things and playing as if everyone has agreed to the terms. The United States does not have one of the best 50 players in the tournament, nor one of its 10 best rosters.<\/p>\n

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Fans in Santa Cruz, California, gathered around a broadcast of the United States and Turkey World Cup match at the beach boardwalk. (Noah Berger\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Through friendlies, camps and tournaments, Pochettino has preached that the United States cannot tie its fortunes to a single player, because no single player is good enough to carry this team where it wants to go. If the Americans are to go anywhere, it will be because the collective becomes their star \u2014 and because Pochettino convinced them that belief is more than a slogan printed on a T-shirt.<\/p>\n

This feel-good team is playing light as a result, seemingly unaware of the load on its shoulders or the expectations it carries: a summertime rallying point for a divided nation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe shouldn\u2019t overstate what sports can do,\u201d Putz said, \u201cbut we also shouldn\u2019t understate that it does accomplish something meaningful and uniquely powerful in a moment in time when we\u2019re so disconnected.\u201d<\/p>\n

A U.S. run deep into the tournament surely would be a communal experience, something that could cut through cynicism and reluctance and remind people what it feels like to believe together.<\/p>\n

That might be where the beauty of the game can be found \u2014 not in the promise that something remarkable will happen, but in the invitation to imagine that it might.<\/p>

Read more Reshaped Caps turn attention to free agency: \u2018We\u2019ve got a really good core group\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

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U.S. players and fans alike fuel their passions for soccer with faith, even if the odds feel like they’re stacked against them. (Lee Smith\/Reuters)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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