Watching Landon Donovan’s game winning goal on Wednesday Purdue University senior Robby Denoho and decided it merited an instant tribute which he posted to 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 also didn’t take long for the video to get to Donovan himself. For all of the plaudits the American soccer star received after his moment of glory, it was seeing the reaction his goal provoked 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.
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great video. but it was so sad to see them lose yesterday. I truly thought they had the skills to go deeper in the tournament. Felt badly for the players. But I will say that the headline in the NY Post today was a classic statement of how the US will never take soccer seriously: Over a picture of an American lying on the field, head in hands, after the loss to Ghana, it said, "This sport is stupid anyway." (It was also VERY FUNNY.)
jaydee
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