USA vs. Vietnam Live: Women's World Cup Score and Updates
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The World Cup is always about expectations, but reputations count for a lot, too. The United States women’s team, which plays Vietnam at 9 p.m. in its first match of the tournament in Auckland, New Zealand, knows this, of course. Wins and trophies and championships send a message even before the team steps on the field, and Friday will be no different. Its chase for a third consecutive World Cup championship — and fifth overall — opens today with a game against Vietnam. It is not, on paper (or, let’s be honest, on grass) what most would consider a fair fight. Vietnam seems to agree. Its players gathered around the U.S. players for selfies at a welcoming ceremony in Auckland this week, and on Friday at a pregame news conference at Eden Park, a reporter from Vietnam took the microphone, introduced himself, and took direct aim at the elephant in the room. “What do you expect from the Vietnam team tomorrow,” he asked Vlatko Andonovski, the coach of the world champion United Stat...
