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Why USMNT’s win over Paraguay looks even better now

Alexis Guerreros·Christian PolancoTue, June 30, 2026 at 6:22 PM UTC

Christian Polanco and Alexis Guerreros of The Cooligans explain why the United States' dominant 4-1 group stage win deserves even more respect after Paraguay knocks out Germany. Check out the full conversation on the “The Cooligans” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you listen.

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I do wanna say though, people were talking a little bit about how, oh, the US only beat Paraguay.

How does that taste?

Hey.

How's that feel, huh?

Okay.

Huh?

You was talking smack.

Now what happened?

You got smacked, huh?

Not so easy.

I mean, yeah, look, Paraguay, every I mean, Germany got CONMEBOLED, right?

They, they- Yeah, you did, bro it, it, it is not easy to qualify out of CONMEBOL, and some of these teams that you, on paper you think, "Oh, okay, we're obviously, we're, we're, we're 10th, they're 41st."

Yeah.

Uh- This should be easy and it is, and it is not.

I mean, there is con- there was controversy, obviously.

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We'll talk about the, the goal that was- Mm-hmm taken off, the, the Jonathan goal.

But overall, I mean, credit to Paraguay.

They, they c- like con- they were, they were not, rattled.

No.

But, the most important thing you can do once you get to the knockout stages is just stay in the game.

Yeah.

That's it.

You g- stay in the game, and maybe there's a moment of brilliance.

There are gonna be some teams that are gonna attack, and there's gonna be some teams that, like, are gonna be too afraid to attack 'cause they don't wanna give up all that space, and they're just gonna look for those moments of brilliance, and it worked for Paraguay.

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And you're seeing also the defensive prowess that helped them beat Argentina.

A full Argentina, by the way, not like a B squad.

Yeah.

Messi was on the pitch.

It helped them beat Brazil.

A full Brazil, by the way.

This is in World Cup qualifying.

These aren't friendlies.

And people aren't putting enough respect on what Paraguay's been able to do.

Look at, you- That- saw here how they are able to, to sort of stifle you and stay in the game.

That's why the f- the 4-1 result in, in the first game of the group stage- Huge it w- was crazy.

That, that's why.

It wasn't a, like That's why the, the, the US, had a lot of pride in that result.

That was a crazy result, and you're seeing it- Yeah yeah, and it makes even more sense after a result like this

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Kathie Lee Gifford is giving fans a candid update on her love life more than a decade after the death of her late husband, Frank Gifford.

“I am not dating anybody right now, and I don’t want to date,” Kathie Lee, 44, said in an interview with People published on Tuesday, June 30. “I’m not looking, and I don’t think I’ll ever get married again.”

Frank died on August 9, 2015, one week before his 85th birthday. The former NFL player and Kathie Lee were married for 29 years, tying the knot in October 1986 and welcoming two children, son Cody, 35, and daughter Cassidy, 32, while they were together.

Kathie Lee met Frank when she worked at Good Morning America in 1982. They went through a rocky patch in 1997, when he publicly admitted he had been unfaithful. The former TV host reconciled with her husband and together they worked to “heal” their marriage.

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