Clint Dempsey on USMNT vs. Belgium, Christian Pulisic & his favorite USMNT striker, featuring Brad Guzan LIVE in Atlanta

March 28, 2026·39 min·3 clips

Clint Dempsey reveals his haunting memories of the 2014 World Cup defeat against Belgium.

Tomorrow night means Belgium. The Atlanta room is live, loud, and already chewing on the idea that the U.S. men might settle an old score against a team ranked ninth in the world. Portugal waits after that, without Ronaldo. It is very Men in Blazers: sponsor roar, crowd mischief, mock prophecy, and a national team staring at the biggest summer of its life. Brad Guzan comes in as the calm adult in the room. Dempsey brings the old-warrior charge, the kind that makes a friendly feel less like a tuneup and more like testimony under stadium lights. The crowd is pulled in right away. Spurs fans get counted and lightly roasted, with West Ham and Bournemouth fans dragged into a quick Premier League roll call of shame, loyalty, and survival. Then Pochettino becomes the problem. His comments about missing football in England give the episode its edge, because he could have killed the Spurs chatter and did not. The room laughs, but the question gets serious fast: when a manager has tabloid noise around his next job, do players hear it, or do they shut the windows and get on with the work? Guzan keeps it simple. Players may feel the background hum, but a World Cup at home is too rare and too big to let someone else's career rumor drive the bus. Control is the word that sticks. Represent the country, bring the best version available that day, and leave something the next group can climb past. The 1994 World Cup becomes the useful comparison. That tournament helped launch a professional league, and this home World Cup gets treated as another chance to change the sport here. South Korea's run is the dream shape. A host nation going wild, maybe even semifinal-level wild, sits in the air like a dare. The ending pulls wider: soccer in schools, Atlanta's part in the culture, shared football language, and a refusal to treat the moment like just another tournament. It closes loud, hopeful, and a little unhinged, exactly where this show likes to live.

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A loud, legacy-minded USMNT night with Dempsey and Guzan.

This episode tracks a live Atlanta USMNT night with Brad Guzan and Clint Dempsey, opening on Belgium and carrying through to a Ronaldo-less Portugal on Tuesday night.

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