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Ecuador Built the Hardest Defense in World Cup Qualifying and Nobody Noticed
While the World Cup spent its opening week marvelling at goals, upsets and the chaos of a 48-team tournament, one team kept quietly doing the least fashionable thing in football. Ecuador defended. They have built a reputation not on flair or famous names but on the simple,
The U.S. men's national team begins World Cup play hoping its defense can find its footing in time for it's opening game against Paraguay on June 12.
Eloy Room made the most saves in a 90-minute World Cup game as Curacao claimed a shock draw against Ecuador. He may have tied Tim Howard’s record for the most saves in any World Cup game, which the United States ‘Secretary of Defense’ set 12 years ago in Brazil.
Julian Nagelsmann’s team has an unassailable lead in Group E.
