The U.S. men’s soccer team failed to qualify for a third consecutive Olympics, the program’s longest drought between Olympic appearances in more than 50 years.
Honduras beat the U.S. 2-1 in a winner-goes-to-Tokyo match to climax a CONCACAF Olympic qualifying tournament for players 24 and younger in Mexico on Sunday.
Honduras, a nation with the population of Michigan, also beat the U.S. in a winner-take-all Olympic qualifier for the 2016 Rio Games.
The U.S. men last played in the Olympics in 2008, when an 18-year-old Freddy Adu scored the clinching goal in qualifying. It will miss three consecutive Olympics for the first time since 1960, 1964 and 1968 — a stretch where the U.