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USMNT to be tested by upstart Curacao after drama-free run through CONCACAF Gold Cup group play

After a historically good group stage in which it finished with a team-record plus-11 goal differential while not conceding a goal, the United States men's national soccer team's next test in the CONCACAF Gold Cup comes against a nation it has very little history against.

The U.S. will face Caribbean island nation Curaçao for technically the third time Sunday at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, though this will be the first meeting since Curaçao became an independent nation with the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles in 2010. Curaçao assumed the Netherlands Antilles' records.

The sides met twice in the CONCACAF Championship in 1984, with the teams tying 0-0 in Curaçao and the U.