USMNT's prime-age core faces a rare home World Cup moment
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With an average age around 26, the USMNT enters World Cup 2026 in a prime-age window, blending last cycle’s experience with new maturity. The squad views this home tournament as perhaps their best chance, emphasizing calm and self-imposed expectations as many players are now at or near their primes and the group has evolved into a fully formed unit capable of translating group-stage form into knockout success.
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