Talk of an underwhelming Gold Cup is verboten as the United States prepare for October’s showdown against Mexico with a pair of friendlies this weekJust don’t mention the Gold Cup. That was the spirit of Jürgen Klinsmann’s comments to the press this week,in advance of the pair of friendlies with Peru and Brazil that will lead into the Mexico game in October.
That latter game of course, is one the USA did not want to be playing – given that a win in July’s Gold Cup would have confirmed them as Concacaf’s representatives at the Confederations Cup in Russia in 2017. Instead, and their slack start in the tournament never fairly ignited,Jamaica caught them flat, and Mexico got the benefit of some very dubious refereeing decisions to win the tournament and force the October playoff with 2013 champions USA.
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Source: theguardian.com