America's Pyrite Soccer

The United States men's soccer squad defeated two mediocre teams, and you would have thought they won the world, for all the unmerited enthusiasm and hype. The Americans reverted to form against the underwhelming and under-performing Turks, who had sleep-walked through their first two games. The US victories were fool's gold, Our boys made it through to face Bosnia, but I am in no way confident we will prevail over them, although they are a small country with no great futbol tradition.