True test for soccer in the United States? Perhaps the International Champions Cup.
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That was a really good World Cup, right? (Not to mention I was right about Messi and Neuer.) But now the WC is over, and Americans -- who aren't, by and by, "real" soccer fans -- may revert back to not really caring about soccer anymore. Here's the litmus test: The International Champions …
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