"Go, Go USA!" Ian Darke on His Call for Landon Donovan's 2010 World Cup goal
The Football Weekend25 Heinä 2025

"Go, Go USA!" Ian Darke on His Call for Landon Donovan's 2010 World Cup goal

World Cup 2010 in South Africa, Group C. The United States Men’s National Team is headed for an early exit, unable to secure the points needed to escape a group shared with England, Slovenia, and Algeria. The clock is ticking down on an abysmal game of football in which the Americans did little to demonstrate they belonged in the knockout rounds. The incessant drone of vuvuzelas is like a hive of angry bees chasing the world’s preeminent superpower off one of the world’s great stages.


And then goalkeeper Tim Howard launched the ball forward with a half-field throw to Landon Donovan. The #10 carried it into the final third and played Jozy Altidore into the Algerian box, where he fed Clint Dempsey with a low cross. The Texan’s strike was blocked, but the rebound fell to Donovan, and the rest is history: “Go, go, USA!”


Those were the words of Ian Darke, the ESPN commentator who came by the show in December before he called Barcelona vs Atlético Madrid for the network. We’ll have more from Ian’s La Liga adventures soon, but what better time to look back on World Cup glories than the heady days of July?


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