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by Ridge Mahoney
[USA-FRANCE REPORT CARD] Another inept USA offensive performance yielded a 1-0 loss to France in which the Americans spent most of the game defending and managed just five shots. Soccer America's Ridge Mahoney grades the U.S. players ...
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by Mike Woitalla
[USA CONFIDENTIAL] Results in these friendlies -- now four losses, one tie and one win in the Jurgen Klinsmann era -- aren't supposed to matter. We're to be looking for step-by-step improvement as the team heads toward World Cup qualifying next summer. So was there progress on display when the ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[FRANCE-USA] France beat the USA 1-0 thanks to sub Loic Remy's goal in the 72nd minute in their friendly Friday at the Stade de France. The loss dropped the USA's record to 1-4-1 under Jurgen Klinsmann with two goals in six games.
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by Soccer America
[SCOREBOARD] As expected, Croatia, Ireland and the Czech Republic clinched berths at Euro 2012 with series victories in their qualifying playoffs. Portugal crushed Bosnia & Herzegovina, 6-2, in Lisbon to complete the 16-team field for next year's tournament in Poland and Ukraine. For all the action ...
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by Soccer America
[SCOREBOARD] Antigua & Barbuda joined Jamaica and Guatemala as the USA's opponents in the next round of World Cup 2014 qualifying in the Concacaf zone when it beat Haiti, 1-0, to clinch the Group F title. Guyana knocked out Trinidad & Tobago with a 2-1 win in Georgetown, while Canada ...
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by Soccer America
"They were a really physical team and stood up to us. They did well in that domain." -- French national team coach Laurent Blanc, looking for the positives in the USA's play against his Bleus on Friday. (AP)
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