U.S. shocks fifth-ranked Portugal in World Cup
By Linda Robertson
Knight Ridder Newspapers
SUWON, South Korea — The
United States has always been the
awkward guest at the world’s
grand soccer party, a lonely team
nobody wanted to have much to
do with, either at the tournament
or back home.
Soccer, they all sniffed, was not
an American game.
But on a steamy, surreal
Wednesday in a suburb of Seoul,
the United States crashed the
World Cup and scored goals heard
’round the globe and at the break
fast tables of Americans choking
on their Wheaties. By confound
ing Portugal, 3-2, the United
States proved that it was more po
tent than one of the most feared
teams in Europe, and that it de
serves to be among the top 32
teams in the world.
It was one of the three greatest
upsets in U.S. World Cup history,
ranking with a 2-1 victory over
Colombia at the Rose Bowl in
1994 and a 1-0 win over England
at Brazil in 1950.
The three goals represented a
flood compared to the usual
American trickle. In 1998, the
United States managed to score
once in three games, and only six
times in its previous nine Cup
matches.
When Landon Donovan’s
streaking cross bounced off the
back of Portuguese defender Jorge
Costa’s head into his own goal,
Donovan raised his hands and his
eyebrows to pantomime the feel
ings of all the witnesses at Suwon
Stadium: unbelievable.
“I think this victory will grab
the attention of a lot of people in
the U.S.,” head coach Bruce Are
na said. “But our goal is to make it
to the second round. To do that,
we need more points.”
In a game as riveting as it was
significant, the United States
struck early, going ahead 3-0 af
ter 36 minutes, and fended off
Portugal’s desperate attempts at a
tie in the final, tense 20 minutes.
The match featured two own
goals, bizarre bounces and play
ers on both sides who looked like
they thought they were caught in
a dream.
As the game ended, the U.S.
players leaped into each other’s
arms, serenaded by a pack of
American fans who chanted “Ole,
ole, ole, ole!” and “U-S-A, U-S-A,
U-S-A!” and “Overrated!”
One man had his bald head
painted like a soccer ball and his
beard dyed red, white and blue.
“It was a very hectic game,”
midfielder John O’Brien said. “I
think we were feeling a little dis
belief. When you’re up 3-0 against
Portugal, it’s kind of a shock. The
whole atmosphere was strange.
There was a mist over the field.”
Strange because before Portugal
reasserted itself in the second half,
the United States was the instiga
tor of a rout.
Strange because two 20-year
old World Cup rookies — Dono
van and DaMarcus Beasley —
played better than Luis Figo,
FIFA’s 2001 Player of the Year and
the second-most expensive player
in the world.
Strange because the United
States, playing without its in
jured captain and most explosive
forward, played its prettiest soc
cer since beating Argentina in a
1995 tournament.
In fact, the United States played
with the type of aggression that is
Portugal’s trademark.
“Our priority was to defend
well, but we wanted to press and
attack them,” Arena said.
The victory enabled the team’s
veterans to shake off the shame
of 1998, when the United States
finished last in France, bickering
among themselves and with
their coach.
The U.S. win also turned Group
D upside down. South Korea and
the United States — who meet
Monday — are ahead of Poland
and Portugal. The top two teams
advance to the second round.
For Portugal, ranked fifth in
the world, the loss was another
missed opportunity for a group
of stars who won youth world ti
tles but have never made noise in
the World Cup. Vitor Baia was
more sieve than goalkeeper, Por
tugal’s defenders were a step
slow and its famous balletic scor
ers looked droopy.
“We have to realize we made
some mistakes that you can’t
make in the World Cup,” Figo
said. “All I can say is, there will be
no more surprising results for Por
tugal in the future.”
Portugal scored in the 39th
minute after O’Brien failed to
clear a corner kick. Figo sent a
cross from the right side and Beto
headed a shot on goal. O’Brien
saved it but it bounced back to
Beto, who blasted a line drive past
goalkeeper Brad Friedel.
Portugal got its act together in
the second half. But in another
unexpected twist, the usually vul
nerable U.S. defense kept re
pelling Portuguese waves. The
game became a nail-biter in the
71st minute, when midfielder
Pauleta sent a cross from the left
side that Jeff Agoos meant to clear
from the box but ended up volley
ing straight past the flabbergasted
Friedel.
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