PARIS —
The U.S. run through the men’s soccer tournament came to definitive end Friday, with Morocco dominating to a 4-0 quarterfinal-round win at a packed Parc des Princes stadium.
Although the American women have made the final in five of the previous seven Olympics, on the men’s side, where the tournament is an age-group competition, the U.S. last played in the Summer Games in 2008 and made the quarterfinals just once in the last 68 years.
Judged against that history the team’s performance in France, where it won two of four games, finished second in its group and advanced to the knockout stage for the first time since 2000, was a success.