I woke up yesterday morning a nervous wreck. A Canadian, who shall remain nameless, taunted me pre the USA v. Slovenia game. Meanie. What happens? We tie. USA v. Algeria this morning. The foreigner better keep his negativity to himself. Unfortunately, I could not come up with a feasible excuse to skip work to watch the game, so I sucked it up and listened to Spanish radio with my co-worker while sketching on my Wacom tablet. My Spanish is not that awesome.
The game sounded like a nail-biter. Either that, or those Spanish speaking peeps know how to put on a good show. 90 minutes of game time. Landon Donovan scores in the last minutes of stoppage time. US wins. Very dramatic.We move on to the next round. Historical moment. Chants of “U-S-A” around the country, I’m sure. It’s all much more exciting than I’m making it sound, I promise. You watched it. You know what happened. You don’t need me to tell you what’s up.
What you do need me for to do is to justify Coach Bob Bradley’s surprise move to start Jonathan Bornstein, a left fullback, in place of veteran defender Oguchi Onyewu. Good move, sir. Clearly, you’ve seen the face of this California native. Bornstein is of Jewish and Mexican heritage (hello, future ex-husband?), and currently plays for Chivas USA in the MLS.
More importantly, does anyone know if he’s single? Well-done Coach Bradley. I’d like to see what you have in store for the line-up when we face Ghana on Saturday. Rematch from 2006 in Germany anyone? Except this time, we win. I’m going to make a bold statement and predict a 1-0 game.
U-S-A.