Well, that ref should be executed. Horribly dissapointing.

With this tie tonight, the United States still has a chance.

If the United States defeats Ghana, and Italia defeats the Czech Republic, the United States will advance to Round 2.

Go Italia! Go U.S.A.!

Australia will soon be playing Brazil. Place your Monopoly Money bets people!

I'm seriously hitting myself for missing the US v. ITA game for a seminar. I heard what a crazy game it was. I still have it on my DVR. I have to see it for myself.

I'd pick Ghana over the U.S. (Call me biased or what have you, but I really wanted a good African team to make it this year)..and I sure as hell ain't picking U.S. over Italy.

Italy looked like a bunch of floppers yesterday. Everytime something was close to being a fould their players would dive making it look much worse than what it was.

Seriously.....what is the deal with these soccer athletes. You have football players in the US that play for 3 hours a night and beat the shit out of each other with injuries few and far between and then you watch a soccer game and a guy gets tripped and is carted off the field in a stretcher. You would think his leg got cut off. One of the reasons I don't like soccer.

How do you people root against your own country? Ridiculous.

AMEN

An addendum to my original reply: while it sucks that Canada isn't participating in the World Cup, it is quite a site to see in Vancouver right now. An event like the World Cup brings out all the multicultural colours of the city. There are people with South Korean car flags, and one guy decorated all his apartment windows in the Dutch orange and blue. There are tonnes of people walking around with Portgual and England jerseys. And you knew when the Germans won the other day with the 30 minutes of honking horns...

And there are a few Oilers car flags appearing too... but that's a different story.

Are you aware of the United State's standings on the world futball stage, and our historic world cup record, especially when the games are played in Europe?

Hate to break it to you, but the U.S. already tied Italy, and they ain't playing again to see who advances.

Docetboy, you're not serious? Don't the Italians have one more match to play? I'm not following all the games because of classes..that sucks. I still have saturday's game on DVR..*sigh*

Anyway, I'm looking forward to next thursday's match. Ghana v. U.S.

Macallan25, my country (or countries to be more precise) are not competing :-) I'd love to support the U.S. but they just don't have it this year. But at this stage, you just never know..

I haven't had the chance to watch any of the games. Is Italy still in it? How are they doing?

I always cheer for Italy when it comes to world sports. It's my heritage and I was raised with an Italian soccer fanatic family. We used to have a crowd of people over our house all the time watching. (when the big backyard satellites were popular and there was no RAI in our area)

bcdphie-- Ever been in Bensonhurst Brooklyn during the World Cup? I remember one year my aunt sent us a picture of the Italian flag she made that covered like her whole building. That same year we made a flag that covered our whole garage. I guess in that neighborhood in Brooklyn it was a HUGE celebration. I think it was 1990 when Italy won.

Well, bear in mind that football players have tons of pads on. Soccer players have shin guards and that's it. A lot of guys don't even wear cups. And shin guards don't help much when someone slides and spikes your ankle.

We have a bunch of Ecuadorians and Portugese where I live. Lots of flags and jerseys on display. :)