7 years ago today...Donovan, Howard and Ian Darke go legend

I remember being so angry before the goal because the referee had disallowed Dempsey's goal in the first half (I think for offside), which was the second goal in the tournament that we had wrongly disallowed.

Then Howard saved that header from Algeria, we countered, and the rest is history... Everyone in my house was glued to the TV, and when Donovan scored we all ran around the house uncontrollably.

Arguably the best moment in US soccer history, and it allowed us to win the group while condemning England to a cruel death at the hands of Germany.

I remember typing "its over" in a text message but seconds before I sent it I saw Howard with that throw to Donovan. Crazy shite that was.

I will fully admit that that moment is when I became a lifelong soccer fan. That World Cup is when I started following soccer and that moment was something so special.

From hope, there is glory

I almost like this call more...

Imagine this Fox Commentary team calling this moment

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Also, I'd rather the World Cup be in Qatar until the end of time than have to listen to another WC with those goddamned vuvuzelas. Such a disgrace

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I admit I kinda got used to the vuvuzelas.

I watched this match with a friend in the ESPN Club in Disney World. Before the goal it was basically just a room full of depression. When the goal went in, the place went absolutely nuts. I've never heard a sports bar so loud. Our match was playing in the larger room while the England match and a ton of English tourists were in the smaller room. Most of them came running over to see what the hell happened.

Moment i fell in love with soccer. I remember the rest of the family was watching pride and prejudice and forced me to go to the garage. I spilt my popcorn everywhere when it happened.

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Maurice Edu's disallowed goal against Slovenia was really terrible too

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In hindsight, we ended up 1st in the group anyway, but I still get irrationally angry when I watch highlights from that game. It is just mind boggling how the biggest sporting event in the world can have an official call some sort of infringement and nobody has any idea what the call actually is. Unless I just missed it all these years, there is literally no explanation. That bug-eyed bastard just runs away from the box ignoring everyone. The replay shows everyone was clearly onside. The only possibility for a foul was by the Slovenia players holding US players.

God damn, it's just so infuriating. It would have been probably a top 3 US game of all time coming back to win 3-2 after being down 2-0. Instead, it's a mostly forgotten game after the way the Algeria game went down.

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In hindsight, we ended up 1st in the group anyway, but I still get irrationally angry when I watch highlights from that game. It is just mind boggling how the biggest sporting event in the world can have an official call some sort of infringement and nobody has any idea what the call actually is. Unless I just missed it all these years, there is literally no explanation. That bug-eyed bastard just runs away from the box ignoring everyone. The replay shows everyone was clearly onside. The only possibility for a foul was by the Slovenia players holding US players.

God damn, it's just so infuriating. It would have been probably a top 3 US game of all time coming back to win 3-2 after being down 2-0. Instead, it's a mostly forgotten game after the way the Algeria game went down.

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True. The ref Solomon Koolabali or whateverthefrick his name was, was clearly a biased and overwhelmed idiot.

I bet an American watching soccer for the first time who is accustomed to NFL referees like Ed Hochuli giving the crowd a dissertation on the penalty was shocked at how they do it in soccer