COLUMBUS, Ohio — Some 2,100 miles from Estadio Rommel Fernández in Panama City, Antonee Robinson and two other members of the U.S. men’s national soccer team gathered in a hotel here Sunday to watch a 1-0 defeat that played out worse than the score line.
For multiple reasons, the trio missed the 2022 World Cup qualifier in Central America to begin preparing for Wednesday’s match against Costa Rica. What they witnessed on TV was unrecognizable compared with what they had experienced firsthand three days earlier during a resounding performance in a 2-0 win over Jamaica in Austin.