Earliest known footage of USMNT

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The footage is about 80 seconds long and shows the team in action in a 1-1 draw with the Tigrarna Fotbollkubben of Stockholm on August 15, 1916, at Stockholm Olympic Stadium. The match, the team’s first-ever, was the first of six played during its first official international tour, which took place August and September 1916 in Sweden and Norway.

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Previously, the earliest known footage of the United States Men’s National Team was from 1924. That footage, produced by British Pathé, shows the team playing in Dublin in a 3-1 loss to Ireland on June 14, 1924, before its return from the Olympic Games in Paris.

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