“Chris Richards keeled over, and Tyler Adams sobbed. Weston McKennie slumped in a chair, mind spinning, stare blank, while Matt Freese wandered and Tim Ream pondered the end. They, the U.S. men’s national soccer team, had just been banished from their home World Cup, beaten down by Belgium; and in the misty aftermath, players seemed and sounded shellshocked. They were shocked by their inexplicable sloppiness, by a flop that not a single one of them could answer for. But they were also shocked by the abruptness of their exit, by the sudden end of a charmed run that they genuinely felt would take them to places the USMNT had never been before. …”
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