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    Johnson continues to receive benefit of the doubt

    By Jeff Carlisle, ESPNsoccernet

    Friday, September 5, 2008

    As American soccer fans mull over the recent failure by MLS teams in the CONCACAF Champions League, their attention now shifts to an even bigger shock: Despite a pedestrian run of form over the past 18 months at the international level, Eddie Johnson keeps getting called up to the U.S. national team. It has left me to wonder just what U.S. coach Bob Bradley sees in Johnson. And on Thursday, as the Americans prepared for World Cup qualifying matches against Cuba as well as Trinidad and Tobago ...

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