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    Fringe players likely to earn a look versus Barbados

    By Ives Galarcep, Special to ESPNsoccernet

    Friday, June 20, 2008

    How much pressure can there be in the second leg of a home-and-home series when your team is already up by eight goals? That depends on whether or not you are one of the players who just might get an opportunity to play and who might not otherwise have come. There isn't a lot of suspense as far as the outcome of Sunday's World Cup qualifier between the United States and Barbados, but what last week's blowout win by the Americans has done is create a rare chance for some fringe national team ...

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