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The World Cup Is Coming to America—and Heading for Disaster
When it comes to soccer, the U.S. Men’s National Team’s preparations for the 2026 World Cup are in crisis mode. A humiliating loss to Panama, the tiny Latin American nation most recently invaded by the U.S. in 1989, followed by a loss to Uruguay, sent the …