When the American national soccer team arrived in Brazil for the 1950 World Cup, its 11 players were a school teacher, a hearse driver, and a Haitian dishwasher from Manhattan who had never played together and had trained together only once — and on June 29 in Belo Horizonte, they beat the mighty English team 1 to 0
On Thursday, 29 June 1950, at approximately 3:00 in the afternoon local time, at the newly-constructed Estádio Independência…
