After a 20-month lull between competitive games and the two poor friendly performances that kicked off this Gold Cup summer, perhaps it wasn’t much of a surprise that Tuesday’s tournament opener started slowly for the U.S. men's national team.
The opponent was Guyana, a first-time Gold Cup qualifier ranked 177th in the world. Its starting attacking center midfielder, former Rochester Rhino Brandon Beresford, plays for a club from the Atlanta suburbs called Peachtree City MOBA, which competes in the fourth-tier, semi-pro/amateur USL League Two. The Golden Jaguars were thrilled just to be at Allianz Field in St.