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Colombia crush USA

AFP, Santa Clara

Sun Jun 5, 2016 12:00 AM Last update on: Sun Jun 5, 2016 03:18 PM

Colombia's Carlos Bacca(2L) vies with USA's Gyasi Zardes(L) and Darlington Nagbe(10) before the first goal of Colombia during the Copa America Centenario football tournament in Santa Clara, California, United States, on June 3, 2016. Photo: AFP

Colombia wrecked the United States' hopes of a winning start to the Copa America Centenario as goals from James Rodriguez and Cristian Zapata gave the South Americans a comfortable 2-0 victory here Friday.

AC Milan's Zapata and Real Madrid star Rodriguez struck in the first half before a sell-out 67,439 crowd at the Levi's Stadium in northern California to puncture American hopes of emerging from a difficult Group A.

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US coach Jurgen Klinsmann's side had hoped to score an upset victory to emulate the Americans' famous defeat of Colombia at the 1994 World Cup in the United States.