A visibly upset Clint Dempsey was still proud of the USA’s efforts at the Confederations Cup despite a heartbreaking defeat in the final to Brazil.
Everything doesn’t always work out how you want it to, but no matter what I’m proud of what these guys accomplished and it was great to be a part of it.
We picked our moments of when to get forward, did a good job of hitting them on the counter with Landon’s goal. Second half we still had some good chances, but they were the better team.
He talked reporters through his goal, which gave the States a real lift.
Spector hit a good ball in, I just wanted to get it towards goal and try to hit it to the far post, and lucky enough it trickled in.
I’m proud of this team, proud of the effort everyone put in. Nobody can take away what we accomplished. I thought we played well today and gave them a tough fight, would have been nice if we could have kept the lead but they were the better team and had more chances, and eventually you knew a goal would come.
After a slow start, Dempsey had a great tournament. How the terribly disappointing Kaka won the player of the tournament award ahead of Tim Howard and Dempsey is beyond me.
Kaka plays for a high profile team, with lot of money, & therefore influence – that is why – not for performance related contribution
When I saw Clint openly weeping at the awards ceremony I knew that we had arrived as a team and a country in the world of international football. How can one question the heart, the determination and the love of the game displayed by our boys? It makes me damn proud. I think it high time that football became our new favorite sport ahead of boring baseball and plodding “football”. Soccer has heart and grace…something American sports are missing these days.
Slow down there chief, let’s not kick American Football to the curb just yet, I’m still a huge fan of that sport. That being said, not only should Clint & Tim received consideration for player of the tournament, Landon should have as well. He scored less goals than Clint, but Landon was the leader of this group in this tournament. He set the pace, he worked harder than everyone else on the field. Without Landon’s performance, who knows if the U.S. would have made it as far as they did.
Baseball is much like soccer in that it appears boring for those who do not know the game. I used to hate soccer and thought it the most boring sport alive-I know the game better now and soccer has jumped to my third sport (I am not a big basketball fan).
For me, it goes like this:
Favorite Sports
1.Soccer (Football, Futbol…whatever)
2.Football (NFL, College, High School…all good)
3.Mixed Martial Arts
4.Rugby
5.College Basketball (don’t care for the NBA)
It is nice that there’s an international team out there with one of the key players from our own side that embodies ‘the heart, the determination and the love of the game’ as Fulham USA describes above.
I simply haven’t had the time or the money to follow as much American sport as I’d like but now they’ve made ESPN America free-to-air on my satellite service I’ll certainly be taking the time to watch a lot more.
Have to agree with Jason about Landon Donovan which, because I’ve been doubtful about the guy in the past, is really saying something. It seems he’s much more suited to the wider role than that second striker position where he has played before. I can’t see Fulham splashing the cash on him, though, and his value would have shot up after that tournament.