São Paulo

The U.S. men's national soccer team is barreling through the 2014 World Cup like a frantic holiday shopper—OK, yes, they have only played and won a single game; don't be such a wet sock—and reports from back home suggest the domestic soccer bandwagon is greased and noisy and rolling. Fantastic. A bandwagon isn't a hallmark of marginalization. It's a sign of arrival. The bandwagon is as much a big-event sports ritual as forgetting to buy ice, and texting all your guests to bring ice, until you have far too much...