USA vs Mexico: United States Pulls off Stunning Upset for 1st Ever Win in Mexico

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Published: August 16, 2012

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It sits over a mile above sea level. Inside its walls are over 105,000 seats that at kickoff are filled with some of the world's most hostile fans. On the field itself is the Mexican national football team. A team just coming off a gold medal in the 2012 London Olympics, a team that does not lose at home and a team that hates the United States.

Welcome to Estadio Azteca. Now good luck.

That was the situation the United States national team faced tonight in Mexico City, but let's make the situation even more extreme.

Over the course of the 75 years that the United States has played games in Mexico they are a horrendous 0-23-1. The United States will also played the game without key players Clint Dempsey, Michael Bradley, Jozy Altidore, Carlos Bocanegra, Steve Cherundolo and Oguchi Onyewu.

Now, you get the idea of how impossible the task was tonight for the United States.

Even the most diehard United States fans could not play out an outcome in their mind in which the United States would leave Azteca on Wednesday night with a victory. It seemed as if the only ones who believed a victory was possible were the only ones who needed too, Team USA themselves.

"I'm not thinking that we're going to lose", United States head coach Jurgen Klinsmann said at his press conference on Tuesday (h/t soccernet.ESPN.go.com). “We will get a lot of answers with a couple of players,” he said. “But if you don’t risk those moments, if you don’t try things out, then you will never know. There’s always a question of when do you try things out and give players opportunities. We have to use those moments, and that’s why I told a couple of established players to stay behind in Europe, because I want to see some other players, see where they are. And some players in Europe, they are not as sharp yet as they should be, in my opinion. So I told them I want to see some different faces. Article Source: Bleacher Report - International Football

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