I choose to see this as an ironic Punishment of Destiny in which MAGA semioticians, in the last gasp of their ascendancy, are forced to embrace soccer—the sport of pluralism and baristas, the thing they hate most in all the world—because it's the one thing improving on their watch
If you had to invent a bespoke ninth level of hell for the Trump-loving truck-nuts gun guys in my small town, I think it would be "US soccer keeps winning at the World Cup and you have to pretend to be happy about it"