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US team depart for WC as England loom

Tuesday, 1 June 2010


WASHINGTON, May 31 (AFP): Leaving a hot and humid American training camp for cool temperatures and high altitudes, the United States team departed Sunday for South Africa and a much-anticipated World Cup opener with England.
A day after defeating Turkey 2-1 in their send-off match, the youngest American World Cup squad since 1994 with an average age just under 27 flew out from the US capital, 15 players bound for their inaugural World Cup.