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    U.S. faces UAE with group qualification on the line

    By Brent Latham

    Saturday, October 31, 2009

    KANO, Nigeria -- The American U-17 national team has played its first two games in Nigeria, but the central question concerning the team still has not been resolved. After a narrow 2-1 loss to a short-handed Spanish team and an uninspired 1-0 victory over Malawi, it is still difficult to say whether Wilmer Cabrera's young players are ready to take a step forward for American youth soccer or are simply another competent but unexceptional team from the USSF's Bradenton Academy. U.S. U-17 m ...

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