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U.S. coach faces impossible decision vs. Germany

USA TODAY Sports

OTTAWA – At some point over the next few days, as this Women's World Cup enters its fourth and final week, the hour of reckoning will come for U.S. coach Jill Ellis.

It won't come on the bench or standing on the sidelines, nor in a locker room or even at a stadium at all. Most likely it will be in a quiet moment, perhaps in the team hotel, when Ellis must make a devilish choice with only one, as yet unknown, correct answer.