Cristian Roldan is familiar with how loud Lumen Field can get. The U.S. midfielder has played for the Seattle Sounders since 2015, getting plenty of love from fans in this soccer-crazed Pacific Northwest city.

Join Joey Lynch and Alex Hatzikostas each day as they go behind the scenes in the Socceroos camp and give the inside word on all the action at the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

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Diplomatic relations between the countries are almost always strong. But Australia, it seems, has had enough with the disparaging American punditry going into this enormously consequential matchup.