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Much like an American sports columnist needing a punchline and relying on old standbys like, say, the Detroit Lions, their British equivalents can always fall back on some good old fashioned bashing on American soccer when needed. Lately, though, as America has improved across the board both internationally and with MLS, this old cliche doesn’t ring as true.
Yet Friday afternoon the stodgy old Brit working the English language feed of the U-20 World Cup in Egypt wasn’t far off with his relentless bashing and tweaking of the U.S. performance. Needing a result vs. South Korea to guarantee advancement to the knockout stages, the U.S. was instead thoroughly defeated 3-0 in Suez.
The U.S. now must wait for the final group stage matches Saturday to see if it’s one of the top four third place finishers.
South Korea Drops US at U-20 World Cup originally appeared on Soccer FanHouse on Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:05:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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