When the United States takes on Ghana in its World Cup opener Monday night, you can bet all 18,000 members of the American Outlaws will be watching. SoCal members of this unofficial rooting club for U.S. soccer will gather at Q's Billiard Club in Santa Monica, California, while Smoke & Barrel will host AO members in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Outlaws in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, will meet at Jerseys Downtown, while the Wilmington, North Carolina chapter will watch at Courts & Sports.

Over the next month 125 official American Outlaws bars across the country will host watch parties as the U.S. men's national team tries to survive the Group of Death and make an improbable run at the Cup.

American Outlaws co-founders Justin Brunken and Korey Donahoo won't be at their regular chapter bar, Captain Jack's in Lincoln, Nebraska. They'll be with 530 other Outlaws watching the World Cup in person.

American Outlaws organizers wanted U.S. soccer fans to connect, like these supporters in Los Angeles who cheered a Legends Cup victory against Mexico in June. Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images

They were set to travel to Brazil on Friday in two chartered planes, each packed with more than 250 American Outlaws members. Donahoo, Brunken and his wife, Megan, who acts as the AO's secretary-treasurer, put together the ultimate trip for the American soccer fan, right down to the parties, the buses that will take them to the USA-Portugal game in Recife and the chartered plane that will drop them off in Manaus for USA-Germany.

"Pretty much the only way to get to Manaus is by plane," Megan Brunken said. "It's basically in the middle of the Amazon, which made it really tough to plan, but we made it happen."

Said Justin Brunken: "The members are coming from all over so we told them as long as they got to Houston we'd take care of the rest. We organized hotels, transportation between games and tickets and everything. We wanted to make it as easy as possible for fans to get to the games."

Helping American soccer fans support their team has been the mission of the American Outlaws since its inception. It started in 2007 with a 55-person bus trip from Lincoln to the U.S.-Brazil game in Chicago and now they're chartering planes to Brazil, starring in ESPN commercials and helping 18,000 members set up watch parties all across the country.

"It's all kind of exploded," Justin Brunken said. "It's kind of crazy how big it's gotten. When we started we realized a lot of people were looking for something like this. They were trying to organize with friends and find a bar to watch at, but one time the local bar would have the sound on and the next time they'd say, 'Well, the football game takes priority.'"

The Outlaws' name came from feeling a bit like outliers, fans of a sport that didn't have the support of the NBA or the NFL. Brunken and Donahoo hoped to help fellow soccer fans find each other.

"Our mission was to unite and strengthen," Brunken said. "We really wanted to find ways to bring people together and get fans all across the country to each game. One of our goals was to be consistent and try to do it for every single game, no matter the significance."

Running the Outlaws has always been a side project, so Donahoo and the Brunkens never expected to be able to attend every USMNT game.