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There was something different about the USA women’s team when they ran out before the SheBelieves Cup game with Japan in Texas. Their warm-up shirts were inside out. This rendered the badge of governing body United States Soccer Federation (USSF) invisible but, because of the stitching, still revealed the badge outline and the four stars above it – one for each Women’s World Cup success.

The whole squad, not just the starting line-up, then posed for a pre-match photo in the inside-out shirts, a photo subsequently tweeted out by some of the

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