Manchester, England-they played 128 minutes of stoppage time included, fighting and not a word here. The United States and Canada women football team, and grasp and play, and, fierce, physics, b., just for now a fierce competition the women's football gold line. Canada in which three times. The United States caught three times.
Now, it in the last 30 seconds of stoppage time last overtime, tie the game and a ball flight of the feet heather · O 'reilly the positive direction net Canada. Over alex Morgan, the United States forward, to a ball she just decided she must have, if life depends on it. "I'm just trying to make my head," Morgan said later. And she did do, just enough of it anyway, redirect the Canadian goalkeeper Irene · mike froude, into the net. In the history of American women's football, this is the latest target once score. 20 seconds is still in the header in the Morgan, but those who haven't much.
The United States has a 4-3 semi-final victory and a date for Japan on Thursday in the gold medal game. "I don't remember ever have the feeling after the goal of a target," Morgan said, who after the final whistle around a pig at the bottom of the pile of teammate Abby Bach to thank all the goal of the game and Morgan doubt savings, for the first time,Wholesale New Era Hats, she may be in football started to cry. (she later.) "Moments like this make sports too cool," said all Bach.
Cool isn 't how the Canadians saw it. They' d played their hearts out, attacking the Americans physically, riding a hat trick from a brilliant Christine Sinclair, standing up and trying to show their international powerhouse neighbors to the South that They too could win on the world stage--all right here in Old Trafford, where the legendary Manchester United Club calls home, dubbed years ago the "Theater of Dreams." One dream fulfilled. One crushed. Canada didn 't see Morgan' s goal as some glorious moment. They saw it as the result of crooked refereeing, courtesy of Norway 's Christiana Pedersen, who They believed delivered call after call to the chosen team of the Olympics.
