The main thing US has to do to get started in competative football is to call the sports what it is supposed to be. As long as they make fun of the sports calling it "Ladys' game," they will never progress. It was not a sad day, not at all. For me it was a happy day. It will be a sad day when US team actually wins the world cup. They are so full of themselves, so arrogant that if they win, they and their media will probably rant about it more years and years even when the rest of the world would have moved on. They have no passion or respect for football. So a big NO to US. I cannot imagine football being popular in US. It will be turned upside down. It will be like Super Bowl, where people are more interested in the show and commercial than the actual sport. They will have cheerleadrs, Mascots, Play Offs, and may be more than 0 players in each side. It will be a shame for football.