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Goodbye to All That
MARK BECHTEL AND GRANT WAHL
July 03, 2006
The U.S. is gone, but the tournament rolls on-and it just gets better from here. Pull up a chair as Beckham, Ballack and the balletic Argentines get ready to rock the goal
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July 03, 2006

Goodbye To All That

The U.S. is gone, but the tournament rolls on-and it just gets better from here. Pull up a chair as Beckham, Ballack and the balletic Argentines get ready to rock the goal

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That the drubbing came two days after a feckless U.S. was eliminated did little to snuff out talk that Klinsmann, who lives in California, could succeed Arena. Asked about his job status, Klinsmann said, "Once the World Cup is over, those things can be discussed." You can't really blame him for not wanting to talk about the future. Not when the present is so fun to watch.

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