destiny

"If I'd gone with them, my entire life would have changed. It might be my fate, or destiny," she says.

"We see that the future isn't stable. We want to be able to write our own destiny and not have it decided for us," says Sarah.

The most important thing to remember is that polls are not gospel truth, flawless forecasts or destiny carved in implacable stone.

It is something else: call it self-ownership, where destiny is assumed as a personal responsibility.

And what will the USMNT’s destiny be in the World Cup?