Posted on 06/23/2010 9:07:01 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
PRETORIA, South Africa – Landon Donovan scored in the first minute of stoppage time off a rebound, advancing the United States to the second round at the World Cup with a 1-0 win over Algeria.
With the U.S. perhaps three minutes from elimination, Jozy Altidore was stopped on a breakaway by goalkeeper Rais Bolihi. Donovan hustled in and kicked in the rebound to win Group C Wednesday.
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Congratulations USA!
Never Say Die!
Good work USA....Obama must not have chosen the US to win....LOL They said on TV it’s the first time since 1930 for the USA to make it to this round.....
Crazy game. They deserved that goal big time.
DAMN!! Home of the BRAVE!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pmS8oy4qfA
Here’s the goal video...
DONOVAN!!!!
Damn refs tried to steal it from us again! They failed this time!
yawn ...
Almost everyone on our block yelled at the 90th minute..damn, cardiac kids. Donovan saved our butts again.
Group C
Team Pts
USA 5
ENG 5
SVN 4
ALG 1
Breaking news? Soccer? Who cares.
No thanks to Dempsey.
Darn. That means our effeminate athletes are catching up to the rest of the world’s effeminate athletes.
first time since 1930 that we won our group. we have advanced after group play previously ...
You obviously do - you’re posting in the thread.
The disallowed goal should have stood. The off-side call was ridiculous.
1,000,000% correct!!!
The Children of Soccer Moms have come of age . . .
World Cup ratings hit a 16-year high in U.S.
Through the first 14 matches of the World Cup, ESPN and ABC have delivered an average crowd of 3.35 million viewers, marking a 64% increase from the same period in 2006, when the networks drew 2.9 million fans.
Until the Taliban or Al Queada fields a team, I’m not interested. Soccer bores me and the Olympics were a lot more exciting during the Cold War. But to each his own. I’m happy for my fellow Americans.
What bothers me is the rest of the world that constantly pound on America in their sports columns about how America should care about soccer. Memo to the rest of the world, we could win this world cup and I don’t think soccer would rise that much in popularity in America. It’s just not going to happen.
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