The Americans.

Day -808. WorldCup2018.

To make up for my little dig at the Americans yesterday here's my Sunday funny memory for this week. I remember this match well. The USA had been terrible in France four years earlier and came to this World Cup with some reputation repairing needed, as a team wanting to be taken seriously as a football nation.  They beat Portugal in the opening group match, and beat their rivals Mexico 2-0 in the second round. But they were not expected to be any match for the Germans in the quarter final. By the end Germany must have wondered how they won and the Americans were equally  dumbfounded at how they were not in the semi finals. Their star player, Landon Donovan, was outstanding and the whole team made Germany look like the underdogs, who scored one goal and  held on with their dear life to that lead.

In a World Cup of controversies, there was a big moment in this match where the USA should easily have had a penalty. The argument of whether the German player moved his hand or not seems immaterial when the ball was definitely going into the net had it not hit his hand.

How is it funny? Just watch the video. I always like finding footage recorded with the commentary in the language of the team involved. And here it is, in American, with accompanying dramatic music.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg3psAYfOv8