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COUNTDOWN

By Doug McIntyre

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

HAVANA, SEPT. 6 (ESPN CLASSIC, 8 P.M. ET) Every four years, Americans gear up for their soccer squad to make noise at the planet's biggest sporting event. What most don't realize is that merely qualifying for the World Cup Finals (as the 32-team quadrennial showdown is properly known) is an accomplishment in itself. This Cuba tilt is just the fourth match of a three-round, 18-game qualifying marathon that won't end until November 2009. (The U.S. trounced Barbados in two first-round matches.) ...

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