USA! USA! USA!

I was super excited for today's game in Ellis Park between the US and Slovenia. When we bought our tickets back in November, the plan was to go into the raffle for 6 games. Four years ago, in Germany, tickets were very hard to come by. Our thinking was that if we got lucky we would get tickets to 1 or 2 games. We were shocked to win seats for 5 games. (When I say 'win', I mean win the right to buy seats). The catch was, when we got the tickets, we knew where and when the games were, but we had no idea who was going to be playing. We had to wait 2 months until they did the ping pong ball draw to find out. So... that's a long way of saying that I was very glad that we got tickets to see the US team play and even more excited when I discovered we were 7 rows off the pitch. The location of Ellis Park is an old rugby stadium. If you have ever seen the movie Invictus about the 1995 Rugby World Cup, this where the final game (and several of the others) took place.

The US was not so good in the first half and (I think) deserved to be down 2 goals. They came storming out in the second half. Landon Donovan shot off the roof of the net to get the US back into the match and the stadium went nuts. We stood for pretty much everything after that. I still think that last goal should have counted. I think it was unfair that we got stuck with a draw. It was a fun day, though!