Has football fever taken hold in the US?
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Image source, Getty ImagesByAndy CryerBBC Sport Senior JournalistPublished3 hours agoThe World Cup is a few weeks in and we are getting closer to finding out who will lift the trophy.
As co-hosts USA prepare to face Bosnia-Herzegovina in the last 32, BBC Sport revisits some of the concerns around a World Cup partly held in the United States. Would tickets prove too expensive? Would football fever not take hold?
Is football simply too far down America's priorities? We asked some of our reporters at the World Cup whether their perceptions had changed. The US World Cup star who couldn't be an American under Trump's plan Published19 JuneHow Pochettino has US believing they can be World Cup winners Published6 days agoWhat was your first impression of the USA's reaction to the World Cup?
John Bennett, BBC World Service I landed in New York on the same day as game three of the NBA finals, so in my first week in the USA covering the tournament, it was New York Knicks fever, not World Cup fever. There is so much going on in New York that at times in those early days it felt as though the World Cup was just another of the many tourists visiting the great city.
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