World Cup fever strikes out

The USA team lost today to Ghana 2-1 and exited the World Cup finals. That is the same scoreline that Ghana won by in 2006 to send the USA home then. The bar was packed, the emotions were high, but the US could not respond to the overtime goal by Ghana. If psychic energy counted for anything, the US would have scored two goals in overtime to win the game and advance to the quarterfinals. But no such luck. The US has to move away from playing X’s and O’s and play more on instinct in order to win on the international level. This is not a wait till next year proposition. We have to wait till 2014 when the next World Cup final is held in Brazil.