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Team USA knocked Iran out of soccer’s World Cup on Tuesday, and Americans have reacted like gracious winners. There has been barely any of the triumphalism one would have expected in victory over a land whose rulers revile the U.S. as satanic.
Americans have preferred to dwell on the boyish heroics of Team USA, average age 24. The chivalry on display from the American public is derived in part from the wholesomeness of the players. The goal scorer and talisman, Christian Pulisic, is known to his teammates as Captain America. He credits his parents for his success. The players around him make for the most racially diverse team to represent the U.S. in any sport. And their diversity is organic, achieved by excellence on the ball, not by legal design. Among its best players is Timothy Weah, the New York-born son of Liberia’s President George Weah.
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