The horror of Folarin Balogun's ejection will linger, but so will the beauty of USMNT's World Cup advancement originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
In describing the most compelling moments of the sport they invented, the English commonly will declare what they’ve just observed is “absolute cinema!”
In fact, it’s become so ubiquitous throughout soccer that as I typed that sentence, the fine folks with the Fox Sports social team posted on Twitter a quick shot of United States men’s national team coach Mauricio Pochettino leaping in celebration and labeled it exactly that.
So it was as the USMNT defeated Bosnia in the FIFA World Cup Round of 32 at San Francisco Bay Area Stadium, by a 2-0 score Wednesday night that does not begin to capture the majesty of their performance.
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There was the moment of absolute cinema as directed by Wes Craven, the slow-motion piece of horror that got star striker Folarin Balogun ejected from this game – and, most unfortunately, the next – for a foul that almost certainly was not his fault.
In describing the most compelling moments of the sport they invented, the English commonly will declare what they’ve just observed is “absolute cinema!”
In fact, it’s become so ubiquitous throughout soccer that as I typed that sentence, the fine folks with the Fox Sports social team posted on Twitter a quick shot of United States men’s national team coach Mauricio Pochettino leaping in celebration and labeled it exactly that.
So it was as the USMNT defeated Bosnia in the FIFA World Cup Round of 32 at San Francisco Bay Area Stadium, by a 2-0 score Wednesday night that does not begin to capture the majesty of their performance.
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There was the moment of absolute cinema as directed by Wes Craven, the slow-motion piece of horror that got star striker Folarin Balogun ejected from this game – and, most unfortunately, the next – for a foul that almost certainly was not his fault.
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