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Pia Sundhage will play a major role in U.S-Sweden outcome

Pia Sundhage is supposed to be living a dream.

She's coaching the national team she once played for in the nation where she grew up. She has Sweden ranked fifth in the world and competing for a World Cup title.

But on Thursday afternoon she sounded more wistful than wonder-struck. In a little more than 24 hours her new team would meet her old one, the United States, in the second game of group play at the women's World Cup. But if you closed your eyes as she spoke and focused on the words and not the speaker, it was hard to tell which team she was with.