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After the U.S. men failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup, any American games of consequence next year will be played by the women, giving new meaning to U.S. Soccer's longstanding slogan, "One Nation. One Team."
NEW ORLEANS -- The last time the U.S. women's national team visited this city, it bid farewell to an era and sent Abby Wambach off into the sunset, or at least the warm glow of the lights on Bourbon Street.
That final game of 2015, the last of Wambach's illustrious career, was also the final act of a year the U.