1930: Paraguay 3-0 (advanced)
*1934: Italy 1-7 (eliminated)
1950: Chile 2-5 (eliminated)
1990: Czechoslovakia 1-5 (eliminated)
1994: Switzerland 1-1 (advanced)
1998: Germany 0-2 (eliminated)
2002: Portugal 3-2 (advanced)
2006: Czech Republic 0-3 (eliminated)
2010: England 1-1 (advanced)
2014: Ghana 2-1 (advanced)
*Knockout tournament.
Note: USA advanced all five times it won or tied its opener. It didn’t advance all five times it lost.

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