​EXCLUSIVE: A Folarin Balogun brace helped the U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team kick off their 2026 World Cup in style with a 4-1 win over Paraguay. This was followed by a 2-0 win over Australia and despite losing 3-2 to Turkey in their final group game, the team topped their qualifying group, followed by a 2-0 win over Bosnia and Herzegovina put them into the Round of 32.Balogun was sent off in the first knockout round, leading to President Trump getting involved to help persuade FIFA to overturn his suspension ahead of their clash with Belgium. It didn’t help and the U.S. were beaten 4-1 to end their World Cup dream.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementMore from DeadlineTrump’s involvement made the story bigger, but what U.S. fans didn’t see was the reaction within the camp as it happened.It turns out they will, at some point.That’s because the producers and directors of U.S. Against The World: Four Years with the Men’s National Soccer Team continued to embed with the team during the tournament and plan to make a follow-up series or feature film.“We were on the inside, so we have a very good idea of what was really going on,” Rand Getlin, who co-directed the series with Luke Korver, told Deadline. “There was a narrative that exists in the ether about how this all went down, and then there’s how it really went down. Our job is to peel back the layers when we put out whatever the output is and tell the truth about what happened.”AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementGetlin, who co-founded Park Stories, the production company behind the series that aired on HBO Max, with Janina Pelayo, now wants to turn the project into a “forever franchise” and is working on plans to make more series or feature docs about the team.“We are super flexible… is it a film or is it a series?,” he added. “We created this thing in 2022 that we released in 2026 and nobody had ever seen that footage of the 2022 World Cup until the eve of the 2026 World Cup. There’s a world in which that’s what we do again.“You could do a feature film on this ride and that could be unbelievably powerful or it could be unbelievably powerful as part of a broader series at a later date. You could imagine us doing something in advance of the Copa América to get the country fired up about that. There’s just so many different ways to create something that moves people. There’s just a tremendous amount of story to tell in this space, and our goal has always been to do it forever,” he added.U.S. Against The World: Four Years with the Men’s National Soccer Team, which premiered on May 12 on HBO Max, saw Park Stories film the likes of Christian Pulisic, Tyler Adams, Tim Weah and Weston McKennie over four years beginning at the World Cup in Qatar. It carried on through training camps and international matches, capturing the disappointing group‑stage exit at the 2024 Copa América that triggered head coach Gregg Berhalter’s departure and eventual re