"European football fans spent months mocking American stadiums, NFL venues, soccer culture, and the 2026 FIFA World Cup in the United States… until they walked into SoFi Stadium, MetLife, AT&T Stadium, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, and Levi’s Stadium. From Los Angeles and New York/New Jersey to Dallas, Atlanta, and Santa Clara, the billion-dollar World Cup venues, massive crowds, USMNT support, American Outlaws, fan zones, and hybrid grass pitches completely flipped the narrative. The same critics who called it a FIFA money grab and said America wasn’t ready for football were suddenly shocked by the scale, atmosphere, technology, and fan experience inside the biggest stadiums in the world."
From before the World Cup began: "For anyone who has not only traveled throughout Europe, but spent time and lived there for months/years, the condescending European attitude towards the United States, Americans and the American sports experience should come as no surprise. Europe, western Europe especially, vacillates between annoyance to outright contempt for the US. It's baked into their minds from a young age and continually broadcast and reinforced via their media. The World Cup has done something even I didn't expect, it revealed the corrupt agenda that the European media operates by (sound familiar?). And to the credit of the Euro football fans, they're being honest about how much they're enjoying the US and their interactions with Americans. What I'm really looking forward to is the months/years after World Cup and the new narrative that may be coming from Europe about America. We shall see."
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