US World Cup Run Ends In Extra Time Vs. Ghana

Gyan's goal in tyhe third minute of extra time gave the Ghana National Squad a 2-1 overtime win over the US Men's National Team in Rustenburg, South Africa Saturday afternoon ((Saturday evening local time)).

The USMNT gave up another goal in the first five minutes of play, but Landon Donovan's penalty kick in the 62nd gave the teams a 1-1 draw leading into the OT.

Ghana now gets Uruguay in the Elite 8...

More when we know more...

Here's the PK that tied it...
((HT: ABC/FIFA/soccerman123123))

The Andres Cantor Looped Donovan Call...

((HT: Deadspin/Jalopnik-Golson))

Just when you thought you heard every version of the Golden Goal, Deadspin hooked up with Jalopnik's Jordan Golson...

And this is priceless...
((HT: FIFA/ESPNDeportes/ESPN))

Donovan Goal Saves USA In Group Play

In what would have been a US catastrophe had they not made it out of group play, Landon Donovan temporarily cemented his place as the United States' premier soccer star.

His goal in injury time against Algeria gives the Stars and Bars a game against either Ghana or Serbia in the knockout round for the Soccer World Championships currently being held in South Africa.

((The HQ doesn't know if we can identify the contest by its actual name without drawing the ire of the folks overseas))

As a country collects his collective breath, here's the goal...
((HT: ESPN/FIFA/hineighbor))

Landon Donovan's New ID Number: H1N1

((HT: LA Times/Grahame Jones))

One day after playing a World Cup qualifier for the United States against Mexico in Mexico City, Galaxy forward Landon Donovan ((pictured, thanks Jed Jacobsohn/Getty)) said Thursday he tested positive for the H1N1 flu virus, or the "swine flu."

"Donovan is believed to have contracted the virus from two Galaxy staff members who came down with it during last weekend's Galaxy game against the New England Revolution in Foxborough, Mass., said Bruce Arena, Galaxy coach and general manager.

"Sunday night when I got into Miami I started feeling a little congestion and just not feeling great, but it wasn't terrible," he said. "I didn't think too much of it. I thought maybe it was just changing climate, the heat and humidity and all that. "Monday, it got a little bit worse. I was coughing a little.

Tuesday [when the U.S. team traveled to Mexico City] I was coughing a little, and when I woke up Wednesday I felt a little tired, but I just assumed it was the altitude." Donovan said he had not considered pulling out of the game against Mexico. "I didn't assume there was anything really that wrong," he said."

Donovan bonked in the 2-1 loss to Mexico. He felt crappy afterwards, took his temperature, and registered a rockin' 100.7. Doctors did their standard poking and prodding and came up with a swine flu diagnosis.

The first 48 hours of the flu is its contagious stage. LA Galaxy coach and GM Bruce Arena is of the thought that Donovan has passed that point and is not contagious to others. The next game for the Galaxy is Saturday against Seattle.

No one knows if Donovan will play, but it's not looking likely.
Ya think...???

Becks is Booed

It seems as though Major League Soccer's savior might need to be saved...from the league's fans. David Beckham's return to the MLS playing field in a friendly game against the team he's been playing for AC Milan was not quite received the way that most would have expected

The story from the Daily News here .

((Galaxy fans share there feelings/Courtesy: Djansazien/Getty Images))

Beckham was recently called out by teammate Landon Donovan in a book recently released about the Britsh Soccer legend's first season in the "States" for being a poor captain and generally not much of a teammate. The two have supposedly "kissed and made up", however it does not appear that the L.A. Galaxy fans are being quite so forgiving.

More from our friends at ITN News/You Tube: