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    U.S. searching for quality depth at Gold Cup

    By Ives Galarcep, Special to ESPN Soccernet

    Thursday, July 2, 2009

    For all of the positives that the Confederations Cup provided the U.S. men's national team, there was one glaring negative that the competition appeared to expose. Despite the strength of its core nucleus of players, such as Tim Howard, Oguchi Onyewu, Landon Donovan and Clint Dempsey, the U.S. squad still lacks the depth it needs to contend on a consistent basis with traditional world powers. Enter the CONCACAF Gold Cup, U.S. coach Bob Bradley's best chance in the next year to mine the U.S. ...

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