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It allowed some players to boost their chances of featuring against Mexico in October’s Confederations Cup playoff, which some players did. It also allowed coach Jurgen Klinsmann to see which players aren’t quite ready for the pressure coooker of next month’s showcase match. MORE: International soccer rivalries | Altidore comes back strong | Player ratings What the match didn’t do was show us a complete and cohesive U.S. squad, and while Klinsmann would surely point out that star players Clint Dempsey, Michael Bradley and Fabian Johnson weren’t available Friday night, that doesn’t change the fact the team that started the match played a largely lackluster 45 minutes before second-half substitutions injected life into the squad....