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American soccer has dealt with two high-profile instances of extreme weather disrupting professional games in the last week. In both cases, despite conditions making it impossible to play at anything close to normal, the games went on.The most recent of the two happened on Wednesday, when steady and heavy rains flooded the field at Snapdragon Stadium in San Diego, Ca. before the U.S. women’s national team’s Gold Cup semifinal match against Canada. The previous Saturday, an MLS match between Real Salt Lake and Los Angeles FC was similarly affected, delayed first by high winds and then again shortly after kickoff by lightning. Four inches of snow fell and it was whiteout conditions by the end of Salt Lake’s 3-0 win.“It was one of the worst professional sporting events I’ve ever seen in my life,” LAFC head coach Steve Cherundolo said after the match, comments for which he was fined $10,000 by the league this week for violating the league’s public criticism policy. So what&#x