OK, I know most Americans of the USA variety aren’t huge soccer fans. Maggie and I however really enjoy the sport and try to get to a few Chicago Fire games each summer. By the way, the Fire’s new stadium in Bridgeview is great, not a bad seat in the house. For my birthday on Sunday Maggie took me to see the US national team play Mexico for the championship of the Gold Cup at Soldier Field. The place was sold out and, as USA fans, we were outnumbered BIG TIME.

The match was one of the best ones I’ve been to. Mexico scored first, but in the second half we scored on a penalty kick and then took the lead with an absolutely spectacular goal. I don’t care who you are… it was beautiful. Take a look at minute 2:00 of the video:

We were sitting about 20 rows directly behind that goal. Oh man. So great. And the USA hung on to win. Amazing.