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    Yearning for Jermaine: the key to U.S. success

    By Leander Schaerlaeckens

    Thursday, October 8, 2009

    U.S. men's national team coach Bob Bradley has a problem. He has only two more games to solve it, and it's not looking like he will. Bradley lacks a world-class defensive midfielder. He released his roster for the two upcoming and final World Cup qualifiers on Oct. 1. Once again, it lacked a true, dedicated holding midfielder -- one who seldom strays more than a few yards past the halfway line and makes disrupting service to opposing strikers his inexorable charge. The incumbent in the ...

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