It’s not as if the United States women’s soccer team wanted an autumn trip to Italy or a Thanksgiving weekend in the Chicago ’burbs but its shocking loss to Mexico in last week’s World Cup regional qualifier forced it to play three more games to earn a ticket to next year’s quadrennial tournament in Germany. (Full article: 934 words)

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