10 Greatest US Goals According to SI

Interesting feature and worth a read or three. McBride's goal against Mexico in '02 WC is highlighted here:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/longfo ... goal7.html

 

Great stuff, thanks for posting Nev. Still remember where I was for both the McBride and Feilhaber goals (wish they had included the spanish version of the Benny goal and not Max Bretos' call)

 

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcGA2W4d5_E[/youtube]

 

Thanks for posting that Lax!

Saw on the WC thread that you are traveling to Brazil w/the American Outlaws. Perhaps a thread devoted to your trip should be started. It would be interesting to read about your preparations for the trip, where are you staying, concerns about travel between venues, etc.. In other words a way for us to live vicariously through you.

 

They are up to # 2 - Donovan vs Algeria, #1 comes out on Monday. Since the article is about the most "significant" goals of all time not the greatest goals, I'm actually surprised this isn't # 1. A goal in the dying seconds of the match that is the difference between not advancing and winning our group for the first time in history is pretty hard to top. What will the #1 goal be? :confusion-helpsos:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/longform/soccer-goals/goal2.html

 

Aahhhh you are likely correct. I think I read once in an article that FIFA was threatening to yank, no pun intended, the 1994 World Cup from the USA if we didn't qualify for the 1990 WC. Whether they would have ever followed through with that threat I seriously question, but it made the stakes much higher than just ending the qualification draught. When you consider that it may have allowed us to keep the WC and then MLS follows that is pretty significant.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXawhyT6i1I[/youtube]

 

Caliguiri's goal will be number 1 for a very long time. Enjoyed seeing the rare ground level footage of it. He went to Walnut HS where we live (our daughter went to the rival HS) and there is a very cool display case celebrating him at the school. Also found it interesting that only 24 countries were involved in the WC at the time, would think that it will be pushed up to 40 teams by 2022.

 

Heather, Joe, et al were correct. # 1 is
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/longform/soccer-goals/goal1.html

Joe says this will be #1 for a long time. So what will it take to beat it? Winning goal to reach the WC finals? Winning goal to win the WC? Landon scoring a winning WC goal at 36?