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And that is because even though we just lost to germany 1-0, portugal beat ghana. therefore, we get to move on. lets take you to new jersey to zain asher, my correspondent there with some red bull soccer players at the red bull arena. were they watching the match with you? >> reporter: hi, brooke, absolutely. i was watching the u.s.-germany game with some professional mls players, the new york red bulls. and when you watch the game with professionals, they are analyzing the u.s. strategy, which ...

Best at it. i love cheering for underdogs. i love cheering for the team thats not supposed to win. i love the upset and come from behind victory. all of that. theres no international sport the u.s. competes in that i love more than soccer. i think its great. every game we win, its a surprise and great feeling. there are skeptics that soccer will catch on as a force in the u.s. permanently. kurt smith, author and sports historian said, "i have the maximum number of fingers and toes and not enough...

Course american football. as those kids get older and control the television a little bit more, they expect ratings to increase. there is no question, this is not huge sport that will become our national obsession starting next month. mls ratings only did half a million people for a championship sporting event. compared to the nfl event, super bowl, 150 million people. >> it was interesting, the ratings were higher in cities that actually have soccer teams. so maybe thats the difference. >> one ...

Into his opponents shoulder. s suarez has been suspended two times for biting players in the past. his misdeeds have earned him a villain-like status. he is beloved in liverpool where he plays. hes been suspended for making racist comments at the 2010 world cup in south africa. he deliberately handed the ball on the goal line in order to deny -- look, hes like a goalie there, to deny ghana a place in the semifinals in the world cup. joining me, former professional soccer player and editor in chi...

Later in the tournament or tomorrow? will they still watch the world cup or tune in for mls action? lets talk about that. welcome. i dont know if you know my feelings on this, rachel, but i just think that this is sort of like the olympics to americans, and well watch until team usa is eliminated and then well go back to watching baseball. >> yeah, i mean theres probably going to be some carryover. this past week a bunch of kids got out in their front yards, kick a soccer ball around and pretend...

U.s. team or could it be the players themselves? joining me now via skype carly lloyd a midfielder on the usa womens soccer team. eva chin, eder to of lucky magazine and rachelle nichols host of unguarded friday nights at 10:30. 10:30 eastern time. carly, youre an incredibly successful footballer for the national team. why do you think that the nation has finally caught world cup fever? it appears finally. >> you know, i think a lot of reasons. i think for one, mls has done really well. number t...

Our players getting the spine of our team on with these record numbers and following it up. >> what does it look like? where are you going to be thursday watching these games? and what does it look like if for the united states as they play germany? >> germany is a great team. its going to be a tough match. i think in the past, we thought when we go after these world powers we had no chance. now we believe we can stand toe-to-toe with any team in the world. we beat ghana and portugal used to bea...

Problem. >> the u.s. did not train on monday so we dont really have any update on anybody right now, but i think clint dempsey, seems to always limp off the field at the end of a game because he puts so much into it. matt besler, proven to be an incredible player, world class, playing sporting kansas city and mls and has shown he can jump to the next level, even with the injury. important to remember he didnt come out and he continued to perform well in the second half as well. >> and were going...

>> if you live in new york, steve, to your question. how do you get a world class player like via and get him in new york where we have got lots of people who care about the sport and put him in yankees stadium where lots of people know where that is? and ultimately all of those dots are connected? >> i would go to that. >> i was going to ask on the lead-up to that. how do you see expansion? you got the connection of team and country and all of that. how do you see expansion over the next five, ...

Eva chin, eder to of lucky magazine and rachelle nichols host of unguarded friday nights at 10:30. 10:30 eastern time. carli, youre an incredibly successful footballer for the national team. why do you think that the nation has finally caught world cup fever? it appears finally. >> you know, i think a lot of reasons. i think for one, mls has done really well. number two, streaming games. weve had games on fox sports 1, espn, so everybodys able to tune in and watch the games. i think thats a big,...