The U.S. national team’s road through the Copa America Centenario is coming right through Seattle.
The USMNT learned Saturday night that they will play their quarterfinal matchup at CenturyLink Field on Thursday, June 16 (6:30 p.m. PT), the result an unlikely and dramatic sequence of events on the final day of action in Group A.
Seattle Sounders forward Clint Dempsey scored the lone goal in a 1-0 win over Paraguay to clinch the USMNT’s berth in quarterfinals on Saturday afternoon, but they didn’t learn they would play in the Emerald City until Costa Rica stunned world power Colombia 3-2 in the last game of the night, giving the U.