Driven by the Cold War, the last century saw the U.S. and Soviet Union playing a continual game of oneupmanship with airborne titans.

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Having played through the game myself I was ready to roll out my usual assessment of these pint-sized Lego video-game renditions, describing it as a scaled down version of the Wii U version, but then I stumbled upon my kids playing the game.

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Ten minutes into the second half, Costa Rica coach Jorge Luis Pinto wanted referee Joel Aguilar of El Salvador and match commissioner Victor Daniel of Grenada to suspend the game, but U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann made a case for playing on.

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