[USA SPOTLIGHT] The U.S. national team played without Landon Donovan and ClintDempsey on the field at the same time for the first 11 games of the Jurgen Klinsmann era and survived. But what was unimaginable was that Donovan,Dempsey and Michael Bradley, the three key players in the USA’s front six for the last five years, could all beunavailable for the next two World Cup 2014 qualifiers Sept. 7 and Sept. 11 against Jamaica, the toughest opponent in its group. Just how important is the trio? At the 2010 World Cup, 2009Confederations Cup and in the 2009 Hexagonal, where the USA enjoyed unprecedented success, the trio had a hand in 25 of the 31 U.S. goals.
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