Okay...sorry to go all Al Michaels circa 1980 on you all, but there was a pretty signifcant upset today in quiet the famous sport...outside of this country of course. I am ashamed and though this blog has stooped to many lows (Spelling Bee and Hockey articles to be exact) I am prepared to dig even deeper here.
The United States Soccer team has defeated Spain. Lets first talk about how they managed to get to this semi-final game. The US needed to beat Egypt by a score of 3-0, and have Italy lose to Brazil by atleast 3 to make up for goal differential. Italy was a complete no show after presumably chomping mass amounts of spaghetti and canolis and happened to lose to Brazil by the margin of 3, and wouldn't you know the United States stomped three goals past Egypt. This was the strongest United States whooping of Egypt since Brendan Fraiser did some serious ass kicking in the Mummy, the Mummy Returns, and whatever the hell the third movie in the Mummy trilogy was called that somehow had a strong Chinese influence if I recall the previews.
Spain had won a record 35 matches tying Brazils streak as well as 17 consecutive international matches (or something like that, once again its Soccer I have no clue). The United States took down Spain by a score of 2-0 behind some strong goals by Altidore and Dempsey (and if those aren't household names for you then get with the times).
This is almost as significant as the United States taking down the Soviet Union in Salt Lake City, but I don't think there is a Cold War that is going on right now, and people somewhat care about Hockey (hardly). I just hope we can get a Disney Movie out of this and have Kurt Russel reprise his role as Herb Brooks except coach of the United States Soccer team and then hopefully halfway through the move turn into his role in Death Proof and run everyone over with his car.
The End. Soccer is great.
