Jason Burgos
A hilarious new survey about the 2026 World Cup shows there are a lot of American sports fans who don’t know basic details about the event set to begin in their country next month.
Americans are used to massive sporting events. The World Series, college football national championship game, and, of course, the grand daddy of them all, the Super Bowl, draw in tens of millions of viewers each year. However, those are United States-based events, and they pale in comparison to the World Cup.
FIFA’s World Cup is the global Super Bowl for the most popular sport in the world, soccer. However, soccer has never been an overly popular game in the US and is probably behind football, baseball, basketball, hockey, and even MMA, in terms of interest, for a lot of sports fans.
Most Americans don’t know US Men’s National Soccer Team coach
Well, that lack of knowledge on the sport was very apparent in a new survey released by Seat Pick this week. The ticket-selling platform surveyed 1,000 Americans, and 76% of them had no idea who Mauricio Pochettino is. If you are also saying to yourself, “Who is Mauricio Pochettino?,” he is the head coach of the US men’s National Team for this year’s World Cup.
Another hilarious bit of information that came from Seat Pick’s survey was that one in five, or 19%, of respondents didn’t even know the US was helping to host the 2026 World Cup. Which means it is probably even more unlikely that they know this year’s event will also have games in Canada and Mexico.
That is not a good sign for the success of this year’s event, when a lot of fans don’t even know who is coaching their national team or that they can actually go see games in person.
The 2026 World Cup begins on June 11 and will last through July 19. Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, New Jersey, Philadelphia, and San Francisco will also host games in the tournament this year.
