The Americans have the advantages on paper, but the Socceroos’ strengths are in their defensive organization and the power of the unknown

It is the showdown to determine the world’s best “soccer”-playing nation: the much-anticipated Group D clash between two countries in which football has more than one meaning.

Neither will be distracted by nomenclature, however, when the United States run out against Australia in Seattle on Friday in a contest set to captivate both sides of the Pacific.

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