and i think -- he knows that nacogdoches has been behind him. and i think he is proud of that and his family is proud of that. i think he -- everyone has represented him well, and he has represented the u.s. amazing. the whole team has done such a good job. >> i love the way you say nacogdoches. i'm from baton rouge, so i'm used to saying that name. it's cool to hear someone who can actually say it on television properly. >> yes, yes. i know. no one can say it. >> you guys, you were great sports. i say congratulations anyway, because it was really quite an accomplishment. thank you, ashley, thank you, lance. >> we appreciate it. thank you. >> so the big question after our collection, our collective soccer fever is a beautiful game here to stay in the usa? joining me now, cnn's rachel nichols. rachel, so put a button on it. what did this mean for us? >> it was a great step forward for u.s. soccer. yes, the american soccer team had reached this stage before, but never with the confidence and fervor that they had in this world cup. never with the s

i grew up in nacogdoches, texas. >> we have a question from twitter.ow what is your analysis on what went wrong with brazil? >> i don't know. i mean it's a tough one. you never want to go out of a world cup that way. at the same time when you start conceding goals and start chasing the good gates open. >> do you think they gave up. >> i don't think that was the case. maybe a little unlucky in terms of the number of shots germany had. it seemed everything they shot went in. feels like your luck is against you. got to the semifinal and that's special but at the same time i'm sure they were hoping -- >> who do you see in the final. what is going to happen? >> a tough one. who is going to win. it's just difficult to look past germany at the moment but at the same time argentina being a big rival of brazil, being in a final and that country is going to be a lot of motivation as well for argentina, so i don't know. you can't look past germany. >> you gave us a lot of great moments there, thank you. >> i wish we had time for more. >> yeah. you can watch the f