Top five memorable moments from Team USA's magical 2026 FIFA World Cup run

D.C. United defender Sean Nealis discusses fans from around the world attending World Cup matches in the United States and the USMNT's victory over Paraguay on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’

With their 4-1 loss to Belgium late Monday night in Seattle, the World Cup run for the U.S. Men's National Team came to a disappointing end.

Although the team's exit was unceremonious, fans shouldn't let that dampen the overall mood from the 2026 tournament, which was, by and large, a rousing success for the USMNT.

From a wins, goals, and overall style perspective, this was the best performance by an American men's team at a World Cup in quite some time, and we have to keep that in mind when judging the experience as a whole.

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With that, we definitely had our fair share of memorable moments, and I wanted to relive some of the best USMNT memories from this magical run at the World Cup.

So wash that bad Belgian taste out of your mouth and indulge me as we take a stroll down memory lane from the past month.

United States forward Christian Pulisic controls the ball past Paraguay midfielder Andrés Cubas in the first half of a FIFA World Cup 2026 match at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles. (Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images)

Coming into the tournament, many pundits and fans (myself included) were shaky in our confidence regarding this iteration of the USMNT.

They didn't exactly enter the tournament on a high note, and their best player, Christian Pulisic, was just coming out of a historic slump.

With a World Cup opener against Paraguay looming, a team that had beaten the likes of Brazil and Argentina during