The United States qualified for its first men’s Olympic soccer tournament since 2008 when the Americans beat Honduras 3-0 in San Pedro Sula on Friday night in the semifinals of the North American Under-20 Championship and Central and Caribbean.
Philadelphia Union’s Paxten Aaronson, an 18-year-old brother of Leeds midfielder Brenden Aaronson, scored in the third minute.
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