By William Hennelly Ok, the title is a give-away. BUT, if you have the recording, go ahead and watch it. If you read this report below, then it will spoil the fun for you. Abby Wambach scores the tying goal in the U.S.' quarterfinal victory over Brazil in the women's World Cup on Sunday. (AP photo) DRESDEN, Germany ( TheStreet ) -- The U.S. women's soccer team added another chapter to the book of great American sports moments with a penalty-kick shootout victory over Brazil in the women's World Cup quarterfinals Sunday after tying the game 2-2 in the waning minutes. The U.S. had a few heroes in this one, including its great goalkeeper Hope Solo . But the goal that will go down as perhaps the most thrilling in women's World Cup history was scored on an authoritative header by Abby Wambach in the 122nd minute. Megan Rapinoe sent a majestic crossing pass over two Brazilian defenders, where it found a leaping Wambach, who headed the ball flush off her forehead and into the back of the net. The U.S. confidently went into the penalty-kick phase, making all five of its attempts to Brazil's three. Solo stepped up again, making a diving save on Brazil's third shot, by Daiane. What made the triumph even more impressive was that the U.S. was playing with only 10 players from the 65th minute after Rachel Buehler was red-carded for tripping up Brazilian star Marta in the penalty area. Solo turned back Marta's penalty kick, but the referee ruled that Solo had moved off the goal line before the kick and gave Marta another try. She converted to tie the score at 1-1. It was Marta again, scoring on a wonderful soft touch shot that found the far post and dribbled into the net in the 92nd minute. Even that goal stirred some controversy, as ESPN replays showed that a Brazilian player may have been offside. The U.S, which will meet France in the semifinals on Wednesday, had taken a 1-0 lead two minutes in on an own goal by Brazil . Sweden will play Japan in the other semifinal game. Sunday's victory for the U.S. came 12 years to the day of Brandi Chastain's classic penalty-kick goal that beat China in the 1999 World Cup final, in a game that is credited with raising the profile of the women's game. http://www.thestreet.com/story/11179262/1/us-women-stun-brazil-in-world-cup.html?cm_ven=GOOGLEN
Rodfisher Eastman FIFA sent many of the Chinese funs again into daydreams of something like victories in world football games. Beyond daydreams, Chinese can never win strength games, and football is primarily a strength game, with its players running all the time and all over the ground, like wild beasts, not only of wild forces, but also of wild glories. Chinese can never win football games. It is a truth generally acknowledged to the modern world that human beings evolved from lower mammal animals, apes or their like. From the lowest mammal to the most evolved human race, evolution occurred in somewhat a sequential way, and there was and is actually a sequence of evolution. The lowest mammal and the most evolved Chinese make the two extremes of the sequence of evolution; and between the two extremes, there were and are higher mammals, beings of the genus homo behind the species homo sapiens, and beings of the species homo sapiens behind the Chinese. The closer to the lowest extreme, the more physical affinities the beings have to the lowest; and the remoter from the lowest, the less physical affinities to the lowest. The body hairs of the beings of the species homo sapiens closer to the lowest extreme, for example, are longer, fatter, thicker and covering more areas, and those of the beings remoter are shorter, slimmer, thinner and covering less areas. And the closer to the lowest extreme, the better physical faculties the beings have; and the remoter from the lowest, the worse physical faculties the beings have. And, by the way, the closer to the lowest extreme, the worse mental faculties the beings have; and the remoter from the lowest, the better mental faculties the beings have. Lower mammals can eat raw crude plants, human beings closer to the lowest extreme of the evolution sequence can eat raw vegetables and half-cooked beefs, but raw and uncooked things can only bring stomach problems to the Chinese who has been taking well-cooked refined foods for thousands of years. Lower mammals have better digestion than higher ones. Lower mammals can run faster and longer than human beings and human beings closer to the lowest can run faster and longer than those remoter from the lowest. Lower mammals have better physical strength than higher ones. Actually raw crude foods, if well digested, bring more physical strength, wild physical strength. Chinese can never win strength games, because they are too much evolved and because too much evolution deprived them of wild physical strength necessary to strength games. The games that Chinese can win are games of art and wisdom. As an inevitable result of evolution, Chinese excel, not in physical faculties, but in mental faculties, not in physical forces, but in mental powers.
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