The USMNT won its World Cup opener against Paraguay as pressure mounts on the team to deliver for all of the American soccer business apparatus.

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From a match in Brazil to the arrival of global superstars on American shores, the US has grown from soccer backwater into host of the biggest World Cup | Football News