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'The City Is Ready': Seattle Set To Roar For USA's Crucial World Cup Match

SEATTLE — Basking the glory of a crucial World Cup qualifying win in front of a huge home crowd in America’s best soccer city in 2013, then-U.S. Soccer Federation president Sunil Gulati vowed that the USA’s men’s national team would schedule more important games. "We’d do that again, sure," a smiling Gulati said moments after that 2013 victory over Panama in Seattle. They never did. Only a stroke of good fortune brought the national team back the last time it played in Seattle, at the 2016 Copa América Centenario, when Costa Rica’s upset of Colombia sent the tournament hosts to the Pacific Nor...