Every Country We Played Trolled Us With "Yes We Can!"
The Belgians had faith in their boys coming into today's Round of 16 match against the USMNT. Following the tradition of every other team we've played in this World Cup, one paper thought it would be funny to turn the famous Obama campaign slogan "Yes we can!" against us. They were right. They could. We couldn't.
Here's how Germany's Berliner Morgenpost played it:
And the game before that, this was the front page of Portugal's A Bola:
Ghana didn't use the phrase in their media—at least not that we could find—but there was this tweet from the U.S. embassy in Ghana:
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