This was a HUGE win for the US. I am fired up about this match. I dont care who it is, to win in Italy is very hard and we played great. Dempsey, has just all of a sudden become a top flight player both in the EPL and International play. I saw a very different team w/Klinsman as coach and it paid off. At least we didnt give up a goal after 5 minutes like we used to do every match. I dont care that people say "It was a friendly, so what". It was some of Italys best against some of our best and we won.
I think this is a very Important win in trying to get Football on more front pages. I am certainly in the minority here in the US. The majority of the US sports fans are blatantly hypocritical when they say "Soccer is boring" then they spend 3 hours watching a Royals/White Sox game in June.... But, it is getting a lot of press. More matches are being shown on TV especially EPL and CL matches. More and more people who played soccer as kids are getting older and its reflecting toward its popularity.
Congratulations to Dempsey and the entire US Squad, they deserved that win.
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