SAN FRANCISCO - The boys in red, white and blue slogged through 70 ugly minutes, flubbing point-blank shots, booting passes straight to defenders, allowing an opponent chosen for its feebleness to knot the game in a scoreless tie. It was May 27, the first of three tune-ups for the U.S. men's soccer team before the World Cup, a windy match against Azerbaijan, and it looked bleak. So the U.S. coach did what a lot of other folks do in Silicon Valley when they need a talent infusion: He called in some foreigners.
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