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American soccer goalkeeper a hero in England

This country’s most important men’s soccer game of the year to date is tonight at RFK Stadium. The U.S. Olympic team, needing a win to advance out of first-round pool play, meets favored Portugal.

All tickets are sold. The place will be packed. But it still can’t match what U.S. goalkeeper Kasey Keller has seen playing the last four years for Millwall , his English League club.

A rare American playing in England, Keller is something of a folk hero to fans of London-based Millwall. From what he has been told, Keller said yesterday, he has had children named after him, “probably in the double digits.