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Bruins Help Team USA to Gold Cup Victory

Bumped from the diaries. A great post with beautiful pictures. It is amazing to see Bruins carrying the day for the Stars and Stripes. GO BRUINS. -N

UCLA has a strong history of developing elite soccer players so it shouldn't surprise anyone that the roster Team USA used today against Mexico in the Gold Cup final had more than a few former Bruins on it.

But it was Benny Feilhaber that really put the Red, White and Blue over the top.

Landon Donovan scored his 34th career goal, tying Eric Wynalda atop the career list, and Benny Feilhaber connected with a gorgeous volley to rally the United States to a 2-1 victory over Mexico on Sunday in the final of the CONCACAF Gold Cup, the championship of North and Central America and the Caribbean.

There isn't anything on YouTube yet as far as I know but the recap has the chain of events:

Ten minutes later, Donovan took a corner kick that was flicked clear by a Mexican defender. But the ball went right to Feilhaber, who scored on a perfect right-footed volley from 22 yards out for his second goal in eight international appearances.

"I knew it as soon as I hit it it was going in," Feilhaber said. "It's a great goal, at such a stage, against Mexico, in the Gold Cup. Unbelievable."


Benny the Jet celebrating his handy work.

It was just beautiful. If you can try and stomach ESPN tonight I'm sure they'll have a highlight of it on SportsCenter. Either that or you can wait for the inevitable YouTube clip.

FYI: Benny currently plays for the German club team Hamburger SV and will be accompanying Team USA down to compete in this year's Copa America.

UPDATE [04/25/07 -N]: Here is the goal:



A beauty!

GO BRUINS

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