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On 29 June 1950, the United States defeated England 1–0 in a World Cup group match at Estádio Independência in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

The odds were 3–1 the English would win the Cup, and 500–1 for the U.S.

Newspaper headlines in most World Cup nations trumpeted the shocking upset, except ironically in the United States and England. There was only one U.S. journalist at the World Cup: Dent McSkimming of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; he could not persuade the newspaper to pay for the trip, and had taken time off work to cover the event.[6]: 4 McSkimming’s report of the match was one of the few to appear in a major U.S. newspaper;[6]: 141 [17] some other journals carried agency reports of the match.[18]

1950: “We have a soccer team?”