Jun 25 2009
USA! USA! USA!
I’m basking in the afterglow of Team USA stunning Spain in the Confederations Cup semifinal. I expected the home boys to put on a good show, but a win wasn’t something I was ready to expect.
I saw the 1994 World Cup win over Columbia, which was a big deal at the time. I wasn’t that up on the global persective at the time, so while I knew we’d been big underdogs, to me it wasn’t as obviously a miss-match as the Spain match was supposed to be. Probably the most amazing US win I’ve ever seen was the 1998 Gold Cup win over Brazil when Preki scored on a free kick and Casey Keller had about as ridiculously good a match as any keeper has ever had. I will put that win above the Spain win because while we played Spain tough a year ago, offering some indication that we could make it hard on them, we’d never really been close with Brazil. The World Cup win over Portugal in 2002 is up there too.
So now it’s the wait until Sunday to see if we can put on the same type of performance in the final.
As a side note, on the hone front I saw one of the most phantom red cards ever when my home team Revolution was playing Kansas City in the second round of SuperLiga play. The way KC was playing there’s a very good chance that cost the Revs a win. 
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