On this date 13 years ago, Landon Donovan initiated the most euphoric sequence in modern USMNT history. “That is the purest of pure emotion and joy.' An oral history of his 2010 World Cup goal vs. Algeria ⤵️
As an Algerian cross floated in from Tim Howard’s left in the first minute of stoppage time, the United States men’s national team was about to be eliminated from the 2010 World Cup without even getting out of their group.
After Howard catches the cross, just as he coils his body to throw, for whatever reason the global broadcast cuts to a few-second closeup of Cherundolo. By the time the camera pans back out, the ball is one-hopping in front of a streaking Donovan near the midfield stripe. To date, the most accessible video evidence of Howard’s throw comes fromYou know what? It was a good toss. I’m not a particularly strong thrower of the ball.
Donovan smashed a shot past the Slovenian keeper three minutes into the second half, Michael Bradley tied the score at 2-2 in the 82nd minute and the U.S. looked to have won it moments later — only to have what would have been Edu’s first and only World Cup goal ruled out by an erroneous infraction.: It doesn’t really bother me anymore, somehow. I don’t know how. Time, I guess, has allowed me to move on from that.
From the first game against England — and I should say that I’m not normally superstitious — I had this elephant in my pocket. When the game was ongoing, I was rubbing it in my pocket, and after the England game, I believed. And I must have rubbed that elephant raw in the second half of that Algeria game.
The best story is that after I played 87 minutes with half a tongue, I’m now in the locker room getting my tongue stitched up — five or six stitches, perpendicular to the length of my tongue — and Bill Clinton comes in with a cooler full of Budweiser. Bill starts passing them out to the boys, so there I am and I can’t even talk. I’m drinking Budweiser with a swollen tongue, slamming beers with Bill with my shirt off.
At the end of this game, they took friends and family to the team hotel and so when the team pulled up, there were dozens and dozens of them waiting — the first time the players had seen them in weeks — along with all of the hotel staff, with music playing, singing and dancing and cheering U-S-A. Based on the players’ looks, it was as if they had won again. The excitement of all that was really cool.
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