For the sixth World Cup in a row, no team from the Asian Football Confederation made it past the first knockout round, winning only three games out of 29. Asian teams are competitive — up to a point.
Trump said that if Australia doesn’t take the players, criticized by Iranian hard-liners for their behavior during the Women’s Asian Cup, the U.S. will.
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