Mauricio Pochettino and the USMNT now know how their World Cup campaign is going to look.

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Pochettino and his team - led by AC Milan star Christian Pulisic - will begin their attempt to become the first US men's team to go beyond the quarterfinal since 1930 in Inglewood, California.

While the women's team have been world champions no less than four times, the men have been eliminated at the group stage four times, suffered Round of 16 defeat on four occasions.

Their best performance came in th

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