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New-Look U.S. Team Gathers to Clean Up a Mess It Didn’t Make

LISBON — The majority of the players called in to the United States men’s national team’s training camp here this week were not in Trinidad and Tobago last month when the squad endured a humiliating end to its World Cup qualifying campaign.

A few of them weren’t even awake.

“I was in bed and woke up in the middle of the night to a bunch of texts,” said defender Matt Miazga, who plays his club soccer in the Netherlands. “I watched the highlights in the morning. It was shocking.”

In the wake of that defeat, U.