USMNT's top 10 World Cup moments ranked, Balogun fiasco leads the list

CBS Sports ranked the top 10 moments from the USMNT's 2026 World Cup campaign, a tournament that ended in the round of 16 with a 4–1 defeat to Belgium on home soil (1). The retrospective places the Folarin Balogun red card controversy front and center, alongside the team making history in front of record domestic audiences. What stings is the context: a favorable draw, $16 million in prize money, and a golden generation that never quite caught fire. Mauricio Pochettino's admission that the side "did not connect" against Belgium still hangs over a program now turning its eyes toward 2030.