Word: kasey
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Germany will be a favorite; it always is. "The Germans just find a way," says Kasey Keller, who played with Borussia Mönchengladbach. Keller remembers the mediocre German team that reached the World Cup final in 2002 and controversially beat the U.S. 1-0 in the quarters. "I could put you on the phone with some of those guys: how they got to [the final], they have no idea; they don't know how they did it, but they did it." This summer, the German team is more talented up front, and rock solid as ever at the back...
...error even more glaring: The American midfielder, who had been splendid in the first two games, committed one of the worst kinds of mistakes - being caught in possession in his own third of the field. Reyna was stripped of the ball by Haminu Dramani, whose shot gave U.S. goalie Kasey Keller no chance, leaving a 1-0 deficit that the Americans could tie once but never erase. They crashed out of the World Cup, 2-1, on a disputed penalty call in injury time of the first half despite scoring their first goal in the run of play...
...before the match, both Reyna and Arena had talked about not giving up the first goal. Yet 22 minutes into the match the Americans were down 1-0 after Dramani strode in on keeper Kasey Keller, finishing crisply into the right corner. To add injury to insult, Reyna was stretchered from the field with a knee injury that later forced him out of the game...
...Still, Italy began to press hard, with Lippi inserting striker Allesandro Del Piero and Arena countering with the no-nonsense defender Jimmy Conrad, who would bully Italians for the rest of the night. But it was American keep Kasey Keller who would soon earn his man of the match with a number of saves at full stretch, including one in the 73rd minute on a shot by Del Piero, as the American fans howled their approval. With 10 minutes left in the game, it was clear the U.S. would settle for the draw, and they defended grimly until...
...post of Czech goalie Peter Cech, the ball rebounding past a closing DaMarcus Beasley. The Americans began to chant again, annoying their Czech counterparts, who started to whistle. But Rosicky quickly quieted the Yanks with a 35-yard blast - think 450-foot home run - that screamed by U.S. keeper Kasey Keller in the 36th minute. The U.S. made several substitutions at halftime, including Eddie Johnson, who provided a lift in the attack, but Rosicky would close this game out in the 77th minute with a beautifully taken goal off a feed from Nedved, slicing up the U.S. defense and silencing...