TEAM USA!!!!!!

I'm sure you have all heard or seen by now the AMAZING US match against Algeria in the World Cup. I was lucky enough to catch a fair share of it because I was at the gym early and got to watch some of it (interspersed with Wimbledon of course). But it was also boring for me so I stayed with Wimbledon and got to watch one of my favorite players, Andy Roddick, WIN his match and advance to the next round!! That was actually really cool and I'm super glad I got to see him play :)


After his second round match with Frenchman Micheal Llodra

But the World Cup match was still 0-0 and not terribly exciting for me (not the biggest futbol fan...) so I left the gym, showered and went to Cafe 84 which is right across from the gym on campus to do my Quiet Time there. Well, they had the game on and there was only about 7 minutes left so I decided to watch it because, hey, it's Team USA. There were about 10 people there watching the game, one of whom was wearing a Landon Donovan jersey and was about to burst with every good or bad play we did. But you know what happened next. During injury time (which I found out what it was later) Landon Donovan scored the winning goal in the 92nd minute!!!



GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Needless to say I was screaming and clapping and everyone else was too and it was way fun to be able to watch it with some fans who were genuinely interested too!!

Basically Donovan is a stud and I may or may not name my first born son (or daughter) after him.....



and here are some amazing futbol fans from South Africa - I love the kid in the pic below, I can only hope that if God grants me children, they too will dress like crazy people for USA and USC :)





AND not only was the World Cup match awesome and amazing (first time we finished first in our group since 1930!!) but Wimbledon was going crAAAzy too!! In the first round on Tuesday a couple of unknowns, John Isner from the US and Nicolas Mahut from France played. I only hoped Isner would win because he is American. Well, win he did, but not in any fashion that anyone would have guessed. Their epic match went five sets, with the fifth set lasting 8 hours and 11 minutes, for a grand total of ELEVEN HOURS AND FIVE MINUTES!!! Longest match in tennis history - longer than all the time it took Serena Williams to advance through SIX ROUNDS last year!! It started Tuesday, then had to break because was getting too dark to play. They resumed play again on Wednesday, only to have to stop early again due to darkness. They finally finished on Thursday, with Isner pulling out the win and now everyone from here to China knows who he is! The final score was 6-4, 3-6, 6-7 (7), 7-6 (3), 70-68 - probably a score not likely ever to be seen again!


Isner is also a tiny 6'9'' so it was a long way for him to fall to the ground in happiness :)


Isner obviously happy to be done with the match, while Monsieur Mahut does not look happy at all...can't really blame the guy, he was prolly about to fall over

Sadly his talent was not to take him through the 2nd round because he lost today in straight sets to Thiemo de Bakker of the Netherlands. Well, that is understandable seeing as how his arm prolly should have fallen off during his match! He was behind schedule too because the match took so stinkin' long so instead of a 2 day reprieve he got less than 24 hours. He took an ice bath, massaged his arm and struggled to eat some pasta just to rejuvenate himself. Andy Roddick even brought him and his coach takeout Tuesday or Wednesday night - gotta love that guy :)

Hope you're having a great Friday and remember to root for Team USA as we play Ghana tomorrow at 11:30am!!!