In Columbus, Ohio, team USA took on Mexico for one of the world cup classification rounds. The U.S. has not lost to Mexico on home turf for over 8 years, and they kept that streak alive as they defeated the Mexicans by a score of 2-0. Both goals were scored by Michael Bradley and both assists came from all-star Landon Donovan. Another notable fact about these two goals is that they both came right before the end of a half, the first one scored during the 45th minute, and the last one in the 89th minute; talk about waiting it out ’til the last minute.

Glad to see that the United States is off to a great start and let’s hope they are more prepared for this year’s world cup (taking place in Africa, 2010) than they were in 2006, where they failed to advance from the preliminaries with a record of 0-2-1.

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