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Diego Luna of the United States celebrates after scoring against Costa Rica during the first half of … More the 2025 Gold Cup 2025 quarterfinals. Getty Images One of the lasting storylines from the U.S. men’s national team’s 2-1 win over Guatemala in the 2025 Gold Cup semifinals was how the sell-out crowd in St. Louis, traditionally a hub of American support, appeared to be made up predominantly of Guatemalan fans. That may be nothing compared to how Houston’s NRG Stadium may feel on Sunday evening when Mauricio Pochettino’s USMNT takes on Mexico in their eighth all-time meeting in a Gold Cup final. Nearly all of what is expected to be a near-sellout crowd at 72,220-capacity is likely to be supporting Mexico, in a city with an enormous Mexican-American population. That’s even by design from Concacaf, which regularly relies on the American popularity of the Mexico national team to drive ticket sales for the biennial event. It’s unfortunate that USA fans aren’t as mobilized as fans of other Concacaf nations when it comes to regional competition. But any concerns that a lack of American support now will carry over to next year’s FIFA World Cup – in which the U.S. will play its group games in Southern California and Seattle – are probably unfounded. Been here before The same pattern appeared a generation ago when the United States prepared to host the World Cup a first time in 1994. Even less than two weeks before the World Cup opener, the U.S. played Mexico in a friendly at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. (Enormous thanks to longtime American soccer journalist Pablo Maurer for finding and posting the above Nightline clip from 1994.) While the 1-0 American victory was viewed as a major confidence boost ahead of the tournament, the heavily…

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