NEW YORK, July 7 : The soundtrack surrounding the United States’ World Cup on home soil was impossible to escape. Television adverts urged fans to believe in miracles. Marketing campaigns promised destiny. Every setback was framed as the prelude to a triumph. But after a 4-1 humbling by Belgium, all that talk of belief gave way to a simpler reality: the co-hosts were beaten by a better team.The temptation after any major tournament exit is to search for the explanation that best fits the narrative. Did Donald Trump’s intervention over Folarin Balogun become an unwelcome distraction? Did the weight of expectation become too heavy? Did the relentless optimism create pressure that was impossible to fulfil?But when the noise subsides, the evidence points somewhere rather less dramatic.Sometime