I was up early this morning watching the end of the first half. It's the first time the US has scored 3 goals in a Cup game in 70 or so years...and we beat a good team. This could rank up there with our win in 1950 against England. The national team is probably the strongest it's ever been, thanks to MLS.
Incidentally, the US scored all of one goal during the '98 Cup...and finished 31st out of the 32 teams.
I love soccer, and it's a shame that the fervor for it comes and goes (the NASL in the 70s and early 80s, the World Cup here in '94). MLS is great...one of the best sporting events I've ever seen was a DC United game in 2000. I think there is hope for the sport here...the WUSA gets great crowds at its games, the MLS is doing fairly decent (though it had to cut the 2 teams in Florida), and if the US can get out of the preliminary round, we'll see a sudden spike of people watching ESPN2 between 2:30 and 10am EDT.
06-05-2002, 11:12 AM
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