Built from more than 300 production days across four years, U.S. Against the World followed the U.S. Men’s National Team from the 2022 World Cup in Qatar to the eve of the 2026 World Cup on home soil. Across five HBO Original episodes, the series moved beyond matches and headlines, bringing viewers inside the team and into players’ homes and families as it stayed through the setbacks, a change in leadership and the final fight for twenty-six places.

Four years made the difference. The series captured not just the biggest moments, but what those moments did to the people living them — a deeply human portrait of a generation carrying the pressure, possibility and responsibility of representing the United States at a World Cup on home soil.