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Minutes before the Confederations Cup final, U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati stands in an elevator with Mustapha Fahmy, general secretary for the Confederation of African Football, and offers him a pin for his lapel."Tonight," Gulati says, "you're with the U.S. in South Africa." The Americans had become the tale of the tournament. In 10 days, the story had gone from "fire Bob Bradley" to "World Cup contenders," and the lone word on the pin was a big reason why: UBUNTU. Ubuntu is an African philosophy that essentially means putting the greater good of the group before individual achievement. It is the essence of becoming one, of becoming a team. The Boston Celtics yelled the phrase every time they broke a huddle during their 2008 NBA championship run. United States coach Bob Bradley had talked to his team about the individual sacrifices Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen and Paul Pierce had made. "It's a feeling of family and togetherness and pride," Bradley says later. "You are trying to get at things that, in many ways, players don't even know about yet. That's what we're in the midst of. Seeing the bigger picture, establishing a trust of what it takes to get there, it's a never-ending process. It's team building."