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(FILES) In this file photo taken on June 16, 2014 shows US soccer fans watching from the pier at Hermosa Beach, California, celebrating US player Clint Dempsey's opening goal against Ghana in their first round World Cup 2014 football match in Brazil. Record numbers of US soccer fans are bracing for another edge-of-the-seat match Thursday as their team battles to make the World Cup second round -- and prove the sport's growing popularity. Nearly 25 million viewers tuned in to watch their last game against Portugal, astonishingly more than the NBA finals or baseball's World Series, mainstays of the US sporting landscape along with American football. Sports bars and pubs across the country were heaving with fans last Sunday night, when the US team came within a whisker of winning an instant pass to the second round, only to be cruelly deprived by a last-gasp Portuguese goap. The question is, is it a blip? Or will the millions of soccer fans evaporate into the night once the US team is out of competition, as AFP reported June 24, 2014. AFP PHOTO / Frederic J. BROWN / FILES
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Hermosa Beach, California, UNITED STATES |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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Frederic J. BROWN |
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25 Iunie 2014 |
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4200 x 2537 (1.38 MB) |
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