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Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
By Avi Creditor Gio Reyna’s return to the field and Zack Steffen’s return to training couldn’t come at a better moment as the U.S. prepares for the end of World Cup qualifying. View the original article to see embedded media. For the entirety of World Cup qualifying, the U.S. men’s national team has been playing a game of injury Whac-A-Mole. One star comes back, two more go down. One area gets reinforced, another requires a scramble toward a solution. So it’s only appropriate that ahead of the final window of qualifying, with a ticket to Qatar within reach, the moles go up and down once more. …