US team ‘devastated’ by lack of home support, says World Cup doc maker

LOS ANGELES: For most national soccer teams, playing a tournament on home turf is a huge advantage. For the United States, it can be the opposite. In the Gold Cup final last year, the US lost in a Houston stadium overwhelmingly packed with rival Mexico fans. The semifinal in St. Louis, Missouri, was a sea of light blue for their opponents Guatemala. There were similar scenes at the US-hosted Copa America a year earlier. It is a huge concern for the US players under extraordinary pressure to deliver as co-hosts at this summer’s World Cup, documentary filmmaker Rand Getlin told AFP.

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