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I wasn\u2019t raised in a religious household, and I went to a series of secular schools, but in my early twenties, I became a disciple of the Greek Australian soccer coach Ange Postecoglou. Postecoglou is best known, globally, as a former coach of Tottenham Hotspur, a perpetually underachieving Premier League club that, after his arrival, won their first trophy in seventeen years. (He also nearly got them relegated.) I knew Postecoglou as the coach of the Australian men\u2019s national team, which he led, with similar inspiration and inconsistency, 2013 to 2017.<\/p>\n

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Soccer in Australia has historically been a forgotten sport. It was a game played mostly by migrants and by women, and was always overshadowed by cricket, rugby, and Australian-rules football. To watch soccer, you had to tune in to a channel called SBS, a public broadcaster that had been founded by the Australian government in the seventies to provide programming for the migrant community. When I was a kid, SBS\u2019s flagship soccer show was called \u201cThe World Game,\u201d and I tried to watch it every Sunday at 5 P.M.<\/em> to catch highlights from the other side of the globe. In soccer, as in most sports, a lot of fans only consider you an authentic supporter if you have a long-standing, long-suffering tie to a local club. Growing up, I didn\u2019t have a local club; I had the national team. When I was eleven, Australia qualified for the World Cup for the first time in thirty-two years, after a tense penalty shoot-out with Uruguay. I could hear people whooping and cheering in the street.<\/p>\n

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In the mid-twenty-tens, Postecoglou took over, and, under him, the team played in an optimistic, entertaining style aimed at controlling the game and keeping the ball. Australia didn\u2019t necessarily have players who were comfortable doing this, but Postecoglou believed that he could build a team that did. It was a sense of underdog idealism that overlapped perfectly with my own political inclinations. A better world was possible\u2014one where Australia plays attractive, sophisticated soccer against European teams. Even failure was a foundation. In the 2014 World Cup, in Brazil, Postecoglou\u2019s Australia spooked a talented Chile in one match, and took the lead against the Netherlands in another. (The team lost both matches.) The games aired in Australia at 7 A.M.<\/em>, and I watched them before my shifts at a combined DVD-and-home-goods store in Sydney. In 2015, the team, whose nickname is the Socceroos, won the Asian Cup, beating a South Korean team led by Heung-min Son.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Australia\u2019s coach in this year\u2019s World Cup, Tony Popovic, is no Postecoglou. He is a pragmatist who derives joy from defensive shape and well-timed counterpunching. But the squad, for the first time in a while, has the glimmer of romance and promise. The players are young and fast and technically proficient. Jordan Bos, a twenty-three-year-old left-back from Melbourne, has been impressing in the top Dutch league with his intelligence and intricate footwork. The vice-captain, Jackson Irvine, who plays for St. Pauli, in Germany, is politically outspoken and articulate. And fans have been delirious for years about our most exciting attacker, Nestory Irankunda, a twenty-year-old prodigy from Adelaide, who plays for Watford, in England, and who can strike the ball with unteachable grace.<\/p>\n

Recently, Australian players have been courted by European national teams. The most prominent of these has been Cristian Volpato, a Sydney-born attacking midfielder with Italian heritage, making him eligible to play for either Italy or Australia. As a teen-ager, he was scouted by the Italian club Roma, and became infamous among Australian fans for studiously ignoring offers to play for the Socceroos, and then posting, on Snapchat, the crying-laughing emoji when Australia lost a key qualifying match to Japan in 2022. The sense was that he was waiting for an offer from the Italian national team. \u201cI\u2019m off Volpato anyway,\u201d a friend of mine texted me a year or so after the Snapchat incident, \u201cDon\u2019t want him even if he turns out to be Messi mark II.\u201d<\/p>\n

A few weeks before this year\u2019s World Cup, I woke up from a fitful sleep, at around 5 A.M.<\/em>, to see the news that Volpato, after years of silence, had been called up to the squad. Volpato had never played for Australia before; now, at the last minute, he would fly to America to join the Socceroos\u2019 boot camp. It was like a plotline out of wrestling: the perfect heel-face turn.<\/p>\n

As the opening game approached, the same historical insecurities lingered. An English colleague of mine, who is a season-ticket holder for the New York City Football Club, in Major League Soccer, asked me what I thought about the team\u2019s two young Australian players, Kai Trewin and Aiden O\u2019Neill, who had just been picked for the World Cup team. To be honest, I barely knew who they were. I expressed a middling disappointment. \u201cOh, but they\u2019re good!\u201d she said cheerfully. I resolved to bring my idealism back.<\/p>\n

It was quickly rewarded. In Australia\u2019s first game, the team beat T\u00fcrkiye, which had been heavily favored, in a strangely decisive 2\u20130 victory. Before the game, the Turkish midfielder Arda G\u00fcler, who plays for Real Madrid, had yelled to his teammates, in Turkish, \u201cWe are much better than them,\u201d in front of the Australian players, as they stood in the tunnel. Midway through the first half, Irankunda, sprinting, flipped the ball past a Turkish defender and then slotted it into the goal with his right foot. Later, Connor Metcalfe, a classy midfielder, strolled through a line of defenders and scored off his left foot. The next day, at my local caf\u00e9 in Brooklyn, an American man overheard me talking about the game, and said, glowingly, \u201cDude, that was a big upset.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Last week, I flew across the country to watch Australia\u2019s second group game, against the U.S.A., in Seattle. Interactions between Australian and U.S. soccer fans, I\u2019ve found, alternate between the solidarity of self-deprecation\u2014after Australia lost a friendly match to Mexico, a U.S. fan tweeted a meme with the caption \u201cUS vs Australia: trash vs garbage\u201d\u2014and the aggression of two small dogs who can finally beat up on each other. The U.S. had also exceeded expectations in its first game, with a 4\u20131 win against Paraguay, and both teams felt a second victory was there for the taking.<\/p>\n

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Seattle was surprisingly full of soccer. I waved at people wearing Socceroos\u2019 and Matildas\u2019 (the Australian women\u2019s team) jerseys on the Bainbridge Island ferry, and nodded what\u2019s up to guys in U.S.M.N.T. hoodies. I hadn\u2019t been back to Australia for over a year, so it was nice to feel that, for a moment, it had come to me. At Ray\u2019s, a Seattle institution, a lunch along the Puget Sound was punctuated by an Australian man behind me talking loudly about how he had recently purchased an expensive subwoofer. Australians are among the world\u2019s greatest travellers; at the stadium, I ran into about eight people\u2014planned and unplanned\u2014whom I had gone to university with.<\/p>\n

Before the game, I had been told that the Australian fans would gather less than a mile from the stadium and march to the stands. Footage I\u2019d seen from the previous march, in Vancouver, was pretty rowdy. In Seattle, kickoff was at noon, and the march had to begin at 10 A.M.<\/em> Many fans had arrived, and started drinking, hours earlier. The march turned out to be more of an amble, and many of the chants were about social-democratic issues. \u201cWe\u2019ve got free health care,\u201d some shouted. Another chant was about rejecting Trump\u2019s proposed tariffs. One of the most celebrated Australian chants of this World Cup has been, \u201cThe Aussie boys are on a bender \/ Donald Trump is a sex offender.\u201d American fans would invariably turn to us and hasten to say, \u201cWe don\u2019t like him either.\u201d<\/p>\n

T\u00fcrkiye, in Australia\u2019s first match, had been sluggish and unthreatening. The U.S., under its coach Mauricio Pochettino, played a much more pressing, rotating, and suffocating game. The U.S. players buzzed around and flicked the ball among themselves, and Australia seemed to freak out. Popovic had also inexplicably benched Irankunda and Metcalfe, the two goal scorers from Game One. The U.S. scored with their first cross of the game, in the eleventh minute, when the ball skidded off the Australian defender Cameron Burgess for an own goal. They scored their second after the Australian goalkeeper was deceived by a looping deflection. \u201cThe worst thing has happened,\u201d the man in the seat next to me said. \u201cWe have to take the game to them now.\u201d<\/p>\n

At halftime, Irankunda and Metcalfe came on as substitutes, and the team started to gel and to threaten. In the sixty-first minute, Popovic sent in Volpato. After his years of national wavering, Volpato\u2019s entrance officially tied him, for the rest of his life, to Australia. And, on the field, he exuded a sudden calm. The first half had been defined by a kind of skittering physicality; Volpato moved through the field with the ball seemingly attached to his foot. (In Sydney, a friend texted my group chat after the substitution, \u201cSend him back to Italy,\u201d and then, three minutes later, \u201cThis is so much better.\u201d)<\/p>\n

Still, Australia lost. Soccer tragics in Australia like to quote Johnny Warren, a former captain of the men\u2019s team, who later became SBS\u2019s leading soccer broadcaster. Warren was famous for saying \u201cI told you so,\u201d a hopeful phrase that he imagined telling people in a future when soccer became the country\u2019s dominant sport. In recent years, his conviction has become increasingly true. Australia\u2019s national women\u2019s team is one of the country\u2019s most popular teams, has some of the world\u2019s best players, and routinely sells out stadiums. And, on Friday, thousands in Australia will wake and gather, before dawn, to watch the Socceroos play Egypt in the round of thirty-two.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Warren, who died in 2004, also used to say that Australia should stop aiming to just qualify for World Cups, and start talking about winning them. One of Australia\u2019s leading young players, the center-back Alessandro Circati, echoed him before the U.S. game \u201cI don\u2019t want to be the underdogs for the rest of my life. I want to be a team which everyone faces, and it\u2019s, like, \u2018Ah, we\u2019ve got to play Australia.\u2019\u00a0\u201d<\/p>\n

As I prepared to board my flight out of Seattle, highlights played on a big screen in the departure lounge, and I was forced to watch Burgess\u2019s own goal one more time, before I fled to my gate. On the plane, I sat next to an American man who had been at the game, and who coached high-school varsity soccer in New Jersey. The entire plane seemed to be soccer fans, and it felt nice to be among fellow-believers. I watched as my seatmate pulled up his phone, uploaded a photo he\u2019d taken at the game, and started drafting a tweet. \u201cAmazing trip to my first World Cup Match,\u201d he wrote. \u201cEnjoyed meeting A LOT of Aussies who traveled much further than I did to see this match.\u201d He deleted and rewrote a few sections, but one line stayed the same. \u201cAmerica has embraced the beautiful game and I love it.\u201d\u00a0\u2666<\/p>\n

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