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Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
By Brian Straus The U.S. calls on the group that will face El Salvador, Canada and Honduras, with an eye on inching ever closer to an automatic berth at the 2022 World Cup. View the original article to see embedded media. The calendar has turned, it’s a World Cup year and Concacaf’s qualifying competition is entering crunch time. With six Octagonal games remaining across two international windows, the U.S. men (4-1-3) are a point out of first. That’s a good place to be—the double round robin’s top three finishers are assured a World Cup spot. But coach Gregg Berhalter’s side also is just a poi…