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New players, same result

By Wayne Drehs
ESPNChicago.com

Thursday, July 23, 2009

CHICAGO -- You can take the players out of the jersey, but apparently you can't take the jersey out of the final. For the second time in less than a month, the U.S. men's soccer team reached the final of an international tournament, defeating Honduras 2-0 at Soldier Field to earn a berth in Sunday's Gold Cup final against Mexico at the Meadowlands. The Americans did it not with experienced senior team members like Clint Dempsey, Landon Donovan and Tim Howard, but rather previous unknowns like ...

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