INTERNET - Stating, "What this Croatia victory tells us is that in order for the United States to beat Brazil, we need to be more Croatia in every aspect, whatever that is," soccer fan Steve Smith took to his @RedWhiteAndBlueballs account to turn Croatia's victory over Brazil into a referendum on the USMNT. "Croatia has the population about one of our states, we just need to have everyone in the state, any of them, play soccer, then we'd be able to move on."

Smith reportedly spent most of Friday googling what it is about Croatia that makes them great on the international level as he attempted to make everything good about the team relevant to the USMNT.

"This isn't about the quality of Croatia's development. This is clearly about how Pulisic (who is Croatian by the way) is not getting enough good players to get us to win a World Cup. If he wants to be considered an all time great, then he is responsible for bringing in more Croatian players into the lineup, or at least converting promising Croatian youths with the idealistic life of youth soccer in the United States. Who doesn’t dream of paying huge sums of money to play soccer, travelling long distances to play in tournaments and hoping to make the right kind of residency for a team that the US Soccer Federation will actually scout for talent."

The Nutmeg News will have more on this as Smith spends most of Saturday researching what about Portugal makes them relevant to the USMNT.