OT: US beats Ghana 2-1
Dom Dwyer was born and raised in England -- just like many of the Founders!
He became an American citizen in March of this year.
You now what I love? America!
Watch Dwyer score the first goal here
Second goal by Kellyn Acosta here:
As a side note, while this was a friendly, it was against a rival: Ghana, which goes by the nickname the Black Stars.
Ghana beat us twice in the World Cup in 2006 and 2010. We were put in the "Group of Death" with them last go around and beat them 2-1 to get to the knock-out rounds. More on the history here.
Summary of the game here.
took like 20 steps to go 4 feet and the ball ends up a half-foot out of reach.
Did stop a PK, though
Ghana's goalie got away with one. Should have been a red card but it was just a friendly. It was probably for the better for the US that he stayed in the game.
In the past 4 meetings, iirc the score has been 2-1. Even if half of soccer games ended 2-1 (they don't), that'd still be a somewhat interesting stat.
Was a good win - we would have lost if Klinsmann had been in charge. Good riddance.
So does this further the narrative that Jurgen was an excellent team director and lousy manager or just that he was lousy all around?
Lando must be loveing this to some degree...
Is getting too much love.
Guys like Dwyer, Acosta, McCarty were not even close to being on Klinsmann's radar.
I know it is just a friendly and it is early in Arena's 2nd tenure but I am completely impressed that he is not just playing all the old guys. Seems to be a real effort to mix the young blood in.