Would the U.S. actually win the World Cup if its best athletes played soccer?

Every four years, American sports fans wonder: what if our best athletes played soccer instead? ESPN's Bill Barnwell digs into that perennial thought experiment, examining whether transplanting NBA and NFL stars to the pitch would actually improve the USMNT's World Cup chances—and explains why, in practice, the idea doesn't work.

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