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SI.com: Soccer America: Where are veteran leaders on U.S. national team?

Mired in mediocrity, the U.S. nevertheless pushed to the brink of qualification for the 2010 World Cup when it posted critical wins over Hexagonal minnows El Salvador and Trinidad and Tobago last month. Yet questions of selection, confidence and leadership persist.

SI.com: Grant Wahl: News is good, but U.S. must improve

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -- The U.S. national team may not have been popping champagne corks on its charter flight back to Miami on Wednesday night, but these are the facts after the Yanks' ugly-but-valuable 1-0 (RECAP) win over T&T here: Only a collapse of epic proportions could now prevent the U.S. from qualifying for the 2010 World Cup.

SI.com: Grant Wahl: U.S. badly needs win at Trinidad in World Cup qualifier

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -- It's tough to feel a sense of urgency when you're sitting in a luxury hotel overlooking the Caribbean Sea on a glorious late-summer afternoon. But it's still possible, especially if you're Tim Howard, the goalkeeper whose U.S. national team needs a victory in Wednesday's World Cup qualifier against Trinidad and Tobago (7 p.m. ET, ESPN Classic, TeleFutura) to feel good about its chances of reaching South Africa 2010.

SI.com: Noah Davis: Octet of MLS stars prepare for Azteca, while playoff race heats up stateside

Our weekly dose of Major League Soccer quick takes, plotlines to watch and Power Rankings.

SI.com: Noah Davis: Teams juggle lineups during Gold Cup; Galaxy come alive

Our weekly dose of Major League Soccer quick takes, plotlines to watch and Power Rankings.

SI.com: Bryan Armen Graham: U.S. vs. Spain live Confederations Cup blog

FULLTIME: It is finished. Spain's 35-match unbeaten streak ends on a frigid night in Bloemfontein, where the United States men's national team has engineered an improbable 2-0 upset of the reigning European champions.

SI.com: Donovan rejoins U.S. roster for Spain friendly

U.S. national-team coach Bob Bradley, in the wake of his team's 2-0 loss to England, has named a 24-man roster for the June 4 friendly in Spain that includes all 17 European-based players who were on the roster for the England game.

SI.com: Soccer America: Edu rockets from college to MLS to U.S. national team

In the brief history of MLS, more No. 1 draft picks have flamed out than have panned out, but if ever a player seemed destined to brighten that dreary history, it was Maurice Edu.

SI.com: Soccer America: Bradley's roster vs. Sweden has been left threadbare

Two players have left camp and at least one other is injured, so the choices for U.S. coach Bob Bradley will be limited somewhat when he names his 18 players who will face Sweden on Saturday at Home Depot Center (Fox Soccer Channel, 8:30 p.m. ET).

SI.com: Tim Vickery: Bolivia, U.S. show promise in Copa

While eight teams march on to the quarterfinals of the Copa Am�rica, the other four go home to recriminations and postmortems. Not qualifying for the second round in a tournament that only eliminates one-third of the teams is clearly a failure.

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