Video: FIFA World Cup US/World Reaction to USA Win
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: So cool to see our country as one. Its sad you don't see that very often anymore.
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My girl was making fun of me last night because I was trying like hell not to get choked up watching that. You don't need to respect soccer to understand, you just need to love your country.
Sometimes I'm just damn proud of this place....despite all of its problems.
Sometimes I'm just damn proud of this place....despite all of its problems.
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Cool vid
Lol @ Some dude in Lyons, Kansas and "I really don't know"
Lol @ Some dude in Lyons, Kansas and "I really don't know"
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It's the one thing that I think that America really lacks, a National team for everyone to get behind.
It appears that in all of the major sports in the US, there is no real world competition.
I know that they have started a world baseball championship, but it seems to me that the US doesn't seem too bothered about that.
In Basketball you have the Olympics, but that's more than just about a single sport.
In England there are lots of people who don't really care about football/soccer, but they take an interest in the major championships and support our national team.
It appears that in all of the major sports in the US, there is no real world competition.
I know that they have started a world baseball championship, but it seems to me that the US doesn't seem too bothered about that.
In Basketball you have the Olympics, but that's more than just about a single sport.
In England there are lots of people who don't really care about football/soccer, but they take an interest in the major championships and support our national team.
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I think one problem is that we only have "USA" teams every 4 years. I know there are smaller tournaments and championships every year or two but they do not get the media coverage that the 4 year tournaments do like the FIFA World Cup, Olympics, etc.UKCowboysFan;3443678 said:
However, I think the main reason is that we have no close rivals. As much as Mexico would like to be that in soccer, most Americans could care less whether we beat them or not. In Europe, the rivalries between those countries covers several sports, not just soccer and they also have a long history of being rivals.
I started becoming a soccer fan during the last FIFA World Cup (ironically, after the USA team went home) but I still have absolutely no interest in Major League Soccer and I doubt I ever will. Now give me a USA team that competes against European teams and I'll be there watching and following it.
I've said it before but if you want to generate a surge in interest in a sport in your country where the sport is barely noticed, you need to put a team together and send them to compete regularly in a league in countries where the sport is very popular.
For example (and I know some will not like this), I suggested long ago that England should start an NFL team and compete in the american NFL rather than run a water-downed junior NFL Europe. Japan should put a country team together and compete in american MLB. USA could put a soccer team together and compete in the English Premiere League. European basketball has improved dramatically in the last decade so many European countries could put teams in the american NBA.
The bottom line is that non-country-based leagues that have been established for a long period of time especially before the internet, cable TV, etc. where region based fan bases were firm rooted long ago are very hard if not impossible to duplicate now. It's why all non-NFL leagues will fail even if they get a better quality player base. It's why no one outside of local fans cares about the minor league system in baseball.
When you create a country based team, you inherit the deep history and tradition of the country which creates immediate interest and loyalty. When you create a new league of any kind, it's hard to even find loyalty among local fans much less those across the nation.
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Student’s video tribute to Donovan a hit
By Martin Rogers, Yahoo! Sports
2 hours, 56 minutes ago
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Robby Donoho, the popular video's creator, is a senior at Purdue University. Follow Martin Rogers on Twitter at @mrogersyahoo
IRENE, South Africa – College student Robby Donoho watched Landon Donovan’s golden goal on Wednesday and decided it merited an instant tribute. Little did he know, within hours it would wind up bringing the United States soccer hero, flicking through the Internet half a world away, to tears.
Donoho, a 21-year-old Purdue University senior and avid fan of the men’s national team, collected a montage of clips of USA fans celebrating Donovan’s injury-time winner against Algeria and assembled them into a catchy package, which he put on YouTube.
Within hours, the video had gone viral, and as the American players headed to bed on Friday night ahead of their round-of-16 match against Ghana in Rustenburg, more than 350,000 viewers had tuned in.
It didn’t take long for the images to be passed through to the USA’s training camp near Pretoria and onto the laptop of Donovan himself. For all of the praise and plaudits the goal-scoring star received after his moment of glory, it was seeing the reaction sparked by his calm strike into the bottom corner of the Algerian net that touched him the most.
“Not sure if you guys saw this but it brings tears to my eyes every time,” Donovan wrote on his Facebook account, while linking to Donoho’s video. “Thank you all so much … we can do it.”
The scenes were intoxicating. From a frantic fan leaping from his couch in Arkansas to a raucous bar in Lincoln, Neb. From a Las Vegas casino to a New York sidewalk, where fans congregated to peer at a television through a shop window. From an American enclave in Lyon, France, to the streets of South Africa, the pictures of jubilation were enough to warm the hearts of those who have waited for soccer to matter in America.
For Donoho, it was a moment he will never forget, and it spawned unavoidable mental comparisons with a certain hockey game from 30 years ago.
“When I watched Landon’s goal go in, and the response from everyone across the world, it immediately reminded me of the Miracle on Ice,” Donoho wrote in an email to Yahoo! Sports, referring to the USA’s legendary hockey upset of the Soviet Union at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. “Those kind of moments captivate a nation and bring us together in a time where belief seems dim and victory doesn’t seem possible. It was down the stretch, with everything on the line.
“The best always comes out in sports, and it did for that moment and Landon. That’s what inspired the world to react with sheer excitement and joy.”
American soccer is not blessed with a long list of spectacular moments. When the end of this tournament allows a sense of perspective to return, if Donovan’s goal does not go down as the national team’s finest hour, it will surely remain its most dramatic.
Head coach Bob Bradley took the decision to shield his players from the glare of the spotlight by sequestering them in a quiet training base in the countryside. Yet the omnipresence of the Internet allowed a sense of the excitement they had conjured back home to seep through.
“There needs to be some kind of distance, but I also think it is important for the players to realize what their achievement means to people,” Bradley said. “That is [not a] bad thing.”
For Donovan, this has been an emotional time. After failing to live up to expectations at the World Cup four years ago in Germany, Wednesday night was the kind of moment he had targeted on the countless nights when the pain of under-performance kept him awake.
When you combine the pride the 28-year-old has in representing his nation with tumultuous recent events in his personal life, it is little surprise Donoho’s stirring video elicited more raw emotion.
And he wasn’t the only one.
“Hearing about Landon’s reaction to my video almost brings me to tears,” said Donoho, who is studying mass communication (broadcast journalism) at Purdue. “I have always gone into making my videos and putting them on YouTube to bring excitement and joy into every viewer that sees them. To hear that the player that inspired the world with his goal saw my video and it inspired him to tears, brings me to tears just typing this.”
http://g.sports.yahoo.com/soccer/wo...ovan-a-hit--fbintl_ro-videodonovan062510.html
By Martin Rogers, Yahoo! Sports
2 hours, 56 minutes ago
Email Print
Robby Donoho, the popular video's creator, is a senior at Purdue University. Follow Martin Rogers on Twitter at @mrogersyahoo
IRENE, South Africa – College student Robby Donoho watched Landon Donovan’s golden goal on Wednesday and decided it merited an instant tribute. Little did he know, within hours it would wind up bringing the United States soccer hero, flicking through the Internet half a world away, to tears.
Donoho, a 21-year-old Purdue University senior and avid fan of the men’s national team, collected a montage of clips of USA fans celebrating Donovan’s injury-time winner against Algeria and assembled them into a catchy package, which he put on YouTube.
Within hours, the video had gone viral, and as the American players headed to bed on Friday night ahead of their round-of-16 match against Ghana in Rustenburg, more than 350,000 viewers had tuned in.
It didn’t take long for the images to be passed through to the USA’s training camp near Pretoria and onto the laptop of Donovan himself. For all of the praise and plaudits the goal-scoring star received after his moment of glory, it was seeing the reaction sparked by his calm strike into the bottom corner of the Algerian net that touched him the most.
“Not sure if you guys saw this but it brings tears to my eyes every time,” Donovan wrote on his Facebook account, while linking to Donoho’s video. “Thank you all so much … we can do it.”
The scenes were intoxicating. From a frantic fan leaping from his couch in Arkansas to a raucous bar in Lincoln, Neb. From a Las Vegas casino to a New York sidewalk, where fans congregated to peer at a television through a shop window. From an American enclave in Lyon, France, to the streets of South Africa, the pictures of jubilation were enough to warm the hearts of those who have waited for soccer to matter in America.
For Donoho, it was a moment he will never forget, and it spawned unavoidable mental comparisons with a certain hockey game from 30 years ago.
“When I watched Landon’s goal go in, and the response from everyone across the world, it immediately reminded me of the Miracle on Ice,” Donoho wrote in an email to Yahoo! Sports, referring to the USA’s legendary hockey upset of the Soviet Union at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. “Those kind of moments captivate a nation and bring us together in a time where belief seems dim and victory doesn’t seem possible. It was down the stretch, with everything on the line.
“The best always comes out in sports, and it did for that moment and Landon. That’s what inspired the world to react with sheer excitement and joy.”
American soccer is not blessed with a long list of spectacular moments. When the end of this tournament allows a sense of perspective to return, if Donovan’s goal does not go down as the national team’s finest hour, it will surely remain its most dramatic.
Head coach Bob Bradley took the decision to shield his players from the glare of the spotlight by sequestering them in a quiet training base in the countryside. Yet the omnipresence of the Internet allowed a sense of the excitement they had conjured back home to seep through.
“There needs to be some kind of distance, but I also think it is important for the players to realize what their achievement means to people,” Bradley said. “That is [not a] bad thing.”
For Donovan, this has been an emotional time. After failing to live up to expectations at the World Cup four years ago in Germany, Wednesday night was the kind of moment he had targeted on the countless nights when the pain of under-performance kept him awake.
When you combine the pride the 28-year-old has in representing his nation with tumultuous recent events in his personal life, it is little surprise Donoho’s stirring video elicited more raw emotion.
And he wasn’t the only one.
“Hearing about Landon’s reaction to my video almost brings me to tears,” said Donoho, who is studying mass communication (broadcast journalism) at Purdue. “I have always gone into making my videos and putting them on YouTube to bring excitement and joy into every viewer that sees them. To hear that the player that inspired the world with his goal saw my video and it inspired him to tears, brings me to tears just typing this.”
http://g.sports.yahoo.com/soccer/wo...ovan-a-hit--fbintl_ro-videodonovan062510.html
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I love it.
This is the kind of thing I live for and dream about with sports.
Love the rudy music.
and much like rudy, rocky etc...the true to life underdog stories are few and far between.
Sports always walks that fine line of hyperbole and build up and reality.
But in this kind of case its real and its fantastic. It cant be duplicated in anyway. It just happens sometimes and for anyone who ever experiences it once its gone you always long for it again.
like I said, this is everything I love about sports, its rocky, rudy etc...The scenes from the bars across america in the video look exactly like the scenes from major league when the indians win the pennant, only they are real.
I dont think anything could ever be like the 80 olympics, and unfortunately I was 4 at the time but thankfully every once in a while we get it on a smaller level.
This is the kind of thing I live for and dream about with sports.
Love the rudy music.
and much like rudy, rocky etc...the true to life underdog stories are few and far between.
Sports always walks that fine line of hyperbole and build up and reality.
But in this kind of case its real and its fantastic. It cant be duplicated in anyway. It just happens sometimes and for anyone who ever experiences it once its gone you always long for it again.
like I said, this is everything I love about sports, its rocky, rudy etc...The scenes from the bars across america in the video look exactly like the scenes from major league when the indians win the pennant, only they are real.
I dont think anything could ever be like the 80 olympics, and unfortunately I was 4 at the time but thankfully every once in a while we get it on a smaller level.
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CATCH17;3443551 said:
This video contains material from FIFA which has blocked it.
WTG *******s. Biggest goal in American soccer and you keep if off the internet.
Jump to 2:06 in this one.
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gonna have to make a "World reaction to Dallas Cowboys winning the superbowl in 2011" now for that i will shed a tear.