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Jun

“Los” talks about his journey

Posted by Carey Published in Pro and International soccer, videos

Carlos Bocanegra talks about his journey from youth to high school (his team plays Donovan’s team) to club to recruitment to college to pros to being the US captain at the WORLD CUP.

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Jun

WE ARE USA!!! USA! USA! USA!

Posted by Carey Published in Pro and International soccer, videos

With the world watching, the boy from Southern California put a Hollywood ending on a game that couldn’t have been scripted any better by any of the best Oscar-winning screenwriters.

Here’s the world’s reaction:

My favorite is the dude on his webcam about 3½ minutes into the movie … his facial expressions are awesome, then he BOLTS up the stairs yelling “THANK YOU DOVOVAN!!!”

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USA! USA! USA!

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Jun

STOLEN: 1 goal

Posted by Carey Published in Pro and International soccer

Are you as frustrated & confused as we are here in the Schumacher house??

As far as I know, there still hasn’t been any official word on WHY the center referee disallowed Maurice Edu’s game-winning goal in the 85th minute against Slovenia. The ref sure did seem eager to blow that whistle, though! He had his breath inhaled & his whistle in his mouth before Landon Donovan sent his perfect free kick into the box. He failed to have such eager whistle blowing when Slovenia was getting away with foul after foul after foul throughout the first 60 minutes of play.

True, USA played a sub-par first half, and Slovenia’s two goals were legitimate strikes — both keen and swift, taking advantage of poor USA defending.

But USA was robbed of their game-winning goal after a Hollywood-esque 2nd half comeback.

Landon Donovan said, of his goal in the 47th minute, after he got past his defender he was initially looking for a pass into the box. He didn’t see a good option, so he said, “I just went at the goalie and aimed for his head.” Good plan! I sure wouldn’t want Landon Donovan aiming at my head from 7 feet away! I’d duck just like that goalie did!

Back to the robbery in the 85th minute…
When Donovan sent his free kick into the box, no less than three Slovenian players had USA men in bear hugs, head locks, or both.

A foul on USA? As Mat would say, “That’s total BULL-BEEP!”

(ESPN article & video HERE)