Jon Batiste’s “We Are” is regularly played as bumper music for the United States men’s national team broadcasts, the chorus of which exclaims, “We are, we are, we are, we are the chosen ones.”

At this point, you wonder for what in the world they were chosen aside from the chance to host the 2026 World Cup, because no one wants to grouped on home soil like Qatar did four years prior.

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The Yanks again faltered against a good opponent on Saturday, lacking sharpness early in a 2-0 defeat to South Korea in New Jersey that is rooted in all kinds of worrying things nine months before a World Cup.

Substandard intensity at the opening whistle? Check.

Minimal familiarity between players in the XI? Check.

Too-easy concessions putting the team beh

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