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United States-Cuba Preview: Fringe and Youth On Display For USA

There is part of me that is very excited to see the United States head to Cuba for a soccer friendly for the first time since 1947.

I have long thought that Cuba can and should be a force in CONCACAF, or at the very least the Caribbean, however there are political reasons for why this hasn't happened. Our good friend and resident Cuban soccer expert Brendan Doherty summed up a lot of this for Stars and Stripes FC yesterday, and you should take the time to read that article, it's brilliant.

But what the US is left to play for later this afternoon isn't much.