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U.S. team feels it is up to the World Cup challenge. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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June 16, 1994
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 1994 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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PHILADELPHIA _ The United States team marched confidently into the World Cup in Italy four years ago intent on making history.
Instead, they made trivia.
``I was playing in Germany a couple of years later and I got this call from a friend in Miami at some ungodly hour of the morning,'' said forward Eric Wynalda, for whom Italia '90 is still a painful memory. ``And he said, `You just helped me win a game of Trivial Pursuit. The question was, which American was the first to ever receive a red card in the World Cup.'''
Wynalda was ejected from the opening match against Czechoslovakia as the U.S. was on the way to a humbling 5-1 loss. He shoved a Czech player with two ...
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