The U.S. men’s national soccer team on Sunday afternoon will play an away match against the undefeated leader in Concacaf’s World Cup qualifying.
The venue, though, is not famed Estadio Azteca in Mexico City but one sponsored by a doughnut conglomerate. The opponent is not Mexico but Canada.
The program that has appeared in the sport’s biggest competition once (1986) and has not advanced to the final round of regional qualifying since the 1998 cycle? The outfit that has failed to win the Concacaf Gold Cup since 2000 and made seven coaching changes, not including several interim caretakers, over 25 years?