US vs. Brazil 1998 Gold Cup Semifinal - Preki goal

[gabbyevaristo10]

Roy Lassiter is the head direcetor of my soccer club, Albion in San Diego.

He coaches us sometimes when our regular coach isn't there !

[Jailbird024]

Preki is Serb, he use to play for Red Star Belgrade :))) great player :)

[theZodiacDigital]

yeah this wasnt the A team but it was still a very good B team with a couple of A team players... we know this wasnt for the world cup or anything but it still means something special to score a goal to beat brazil, no matter the circumstances.

[dynamic977]

USA! USA! Hopefully today will be our first fifa tournament victory.

[autonomodelmundo]

Negative

[dudugatinho1]

brazil is best, usa losers

[Darthpryme]

I sure hope you're living in Brazil. Cause if you live in the US and you tout that shit you really should get the fuck out of the country

[poisonbananaz]

HOW is Brazil playing in a CONCACAF TOURNAMENT?

THE CONCACAF CONSIST OF NORTH AMERICA (USA,CANADA,MEXICO)

AND THE CARIBBEAN.

LAST TIME I CHECKED BRAZIL IS IN SOUTH AMERICA.

[wizards7]

Brazil was invited as a guest team - similar to how US/Mexico play occassionally in Copa America.

[djguza]

preki wasn't real good in europe, but in u.s. he really made a name for himself, Good player though

[Sassonic]

Preki plays basketball everyday at the LA Fitness I goto, he's 45 yrs old and one of the best players at that gym. He's a great 3 point shooter!

[strickmatic727]

Tell him he IS FREAKING AWSOOOOOOOOOOOME

but foreal mention that goal to him i bet it will make him feel good

[AMChicago23]

I lived next to preki until about a year ago i was tight wit his son were the same age

[gbrescan777]

Brazil had it's top players on the bench. Look at the video info.

[eleppek]

I guess they didn't care about the stinking gold cup.

[dgwhitehead]

Brazil doesn't have a second-tier team. Those players were at the top of their game at that time.

[GTO071]

World Soccer magazine reported that for this 1998 Gold Cup, Brazil were not "even technically qualified and in which, in any case, they put out a team full of reserves."

So that was a second-tier team.

[infinteuniverse]

@GTO071, usa was much worse then than they are now, so that is irrelivent.

[GTO071]

@infinteuniverse Much worse than Brazil's reserve team?

[matt8284]

i remember preki at everton. cant remember if he was any good, just know i needed him to complete everton in my sticker book! ha

[aesupafly29]

4 goals in 28 games...preki was hardly a us soccer 'legend'. a good player though on the club level

[wizards7]

@aesupafly29 Being a "US Soccer" legend is hardly restricted to performing for the national team. Obviously many agree with me as Preki is being inducted into the US Soccer Hall of Fame today. Congrats to Preki!

[Eleazar73]

And the USA beat a Brazil team which had Pato, in Ottawa, Canada for the World U20 championship.

And the senior team drew Argentina 0-0. The same Argy team that DESTROYED Mexico 4-1 in San Diego.

Oh the hilaridad.

[lordofwrath88]

Incredible. Today the US is expected to at least score. Back then, they got shut out routinely this was a great moment. Preki is serbian, but this makes him even more American. The USA is a nation where people can trace their roots to Italy, Germany, Scotland, Brazil, Ireland, England, France, Argentina and Portugal. From a nuetral point of view it seems curios as to why the USA, a country as big as all of Europe suffers from bad football.

[Aldon3]

guess those of us who can claim their roots to Africa don't count...

I still remember going nuts at this goal.

[Shommy84]

Preki is real Serbian player !

[EmirofShmo]

Wanker?? Is that a stupid limey word?

You certainly talk like a limey fuck!

There is a difference between defending

liberty and creating war to bully other

nations you shithead! Now go brush your disgusting, fuck-up yellow teeth you limey

fag! And don´t forget to pay homage to Elton

John, THE REAL QUEEN OF ENGLAND! heh!

[CRonaldoRulezz88]

hehe im a Serb, and im glad that "preki" is of Serbian decent! His real name is Predrag Radosavljevic!

[DanielSong39]

Among Preki's accomplishments:

- 7-time all star in the Indoor soccer league

- 2-time MLS MVP and scoring leader

- All-time MLS leader in points

- 28 caps for the US National team; led the team in scoring in 1998

A cinch for the US Soccer Hall of Fame.

[ohenn1]

Good Goal but not THAT GOOD!! It was sensationalised in the media

[ai6276]

eh? that beat brasil man. 1-0 --- piss off you mexican wanker.

[lordofwrath88]

A goal is a goal is a goal!

[EmirofShmo]

It really doesn't matter whether the Euro

players were available or not. The results

would have been the same. The USA does well

at home, but can't win as a visiting team.

Example: Last year's World Cup. Those are the

facts big mouth!:)

[evilliberal]

I'm glad we sent the younger players. We need to play better teams in order to progress at the national level.

[rza139]

My friend is actually on the USMNT and he told me how Bradley and Preki had a meeting with everyone and expressed how they wanted to focus on mainly younger/inexperienced players.Bob Bradley thought the Copa America would be a great learning experience for them.Although I wanted them to take their best squad,I definitely understand what he was trying to do.I am however,tired of only winning the crappy gold cup.We need to play against much better competition.

[EmirofShmo]

USA was chicken to bring their best players to Copa

America. They weren't exhausted. Gee, let's all feel

bad cause USA players are wimps and they needed a

break after the Gold Cup! And Preki wasn't a has-been,

he was more like a never-was! Heh Heh Heh!

[bradykuhn]

Actaully the US players based in europe were not going to have enough off time as required by their clubs. The Euro clubs did not release certain players, and they didn't have to b/c Copa American isnt CONCACAF's tournament, know your facts before you run your mouth.

[ai6276]

keep inviting us to the copa america and we will keep sending our B squad on purpose. danka schoen my little dumpling, now fuk off.

[mnxmnx07]

USA is in my blood.........Who won this match USA or Brazil???????

[wizards7]

The USA won this game. 1-0.

[mnxmnx07]

Whoa what a goal!!!!! The US has beaten a lot of good teams such as Argentina, Brazil, Germany, England, and Portugal!!!!!! Thanks for the upload!!!!!!

[hehelerika1]

brasil is better with 5 world champions

[xRobinho10x]

It was a fluke try beating us in the World Cup

[ISBNO7695]

the USA didnt take their strong team because they had just won the gold cup and wanted to give players a break, the point is that they said that they wanted to be the most dominent in their region and they where

[futbolhero7]

wow emirofshmo you think preki sucked wow ur dumb ok he played in fucking england as a starter then he moved over to the us and won the mvp 2 times no1 has ever done that in mls and dont forget his playing indoor soccer where he was probably next to pele one of the best players ever to play in that league o and you think so wut he scored a goal on brazil well guess wut he is the only player in us history to score a goal on them so shut the f*** up

[EmirofShmo]

Don't the USA look like fools for not bringing

better players to the Copa America!

Every other team used Copa America to make their teams

better. USA brings their retarded players instead. What dumbasses!

[JeDiMiNdTrickz101]

lol yea we would have done waay better with the A team. Not saying we would have beat Brazil or Argentina but we would have at least beat columbia or somthing lol

[libreg]

You're the fool, if anyone. The player's had just finished their club season, right? Then the gold cup. No break there. And you actually expect them to play in the Copa America? You do realize, that if they played in the copa america, they would immediately go back to their clubs, and be exhausted, right?

[vidasadia]

USA play good whit wars!

right mister president???

Buck Fush!

[ai6276]

yes we are champions also at the sport of war. in order to have liberty, we must always be ready to defend it. something you, a quitter, know nothing about. - LONG LIVE THE GLORIOUS CAUSE-

[duduvissotto]

We are not here to discuss that war is a good thing or what political issues this or that country supports. We each have our views, particularly when it regards matters that affect many countries. We are here to have a healthy discussion concerning football(soccer), which we have the love and passion for. Let's leave the cursing and hatred aside, that will lead us nowhere, the world is already full of so much crap, football at least brings happiness to the people here in Brazil.

Cheers everyone!

[vidasadia]

USA know what the FOOTBALL means?

[ussoccerdiego]

Man that was a 1st class goal. I didnt see this game but i heard lot bout how the US tried to stay scoreless thanx to Keller...

[goldenegg76]

usa didn't bring there starting roster to copa america. congraats, argentina beat a 2nd string roster..

[xshawnyxboyx]

more like 3rd or 4th string

[nirvrock77]

So the US has a losing international match record...you have to admit our american football teams are the best in the world:) That's how we win here...we make our own sports. I'd like to see brazil beat the us at table tennis...haven't you seen Forest Gump?

[EmirofShmo]

What a great win for Argentina over the USA!

Party time!! US still has a losing international

match record! Thanks Argentina!

[EmirofShmo]

What do drug lords have to do with soccer?

How many World Cups does the USA have-ZERO!

All of you in the US go F*** yourselves!!

[wizards7]

Leave politics out of this please. The 300 million+ people in this country didn't do anything to you. One guy made a stupid comment, try not to ignorantly do the same.

Why don't we both focus on how crappy both our teams looked in Copa America this week? The young guys both squads sent were just asking to get destroyed.

[nirvrock77]

Let's just say - mexico vs us= 2-0 gold cup...mexico vs brazil= 2-0 copa...us beats mexico...mexico beats brazil.

[nicholas210393]

usa never won a world cup ,so Brazil won 5,usa need play more soccer , no football american or baseball.

usa not play bealtifull

[EmirofShmo]

And how many times did Brazil never let the U.S. score. Maybe the times

the U.S. never scored is because the U.S. was too busy thinking of

invading and starting a war with someone.

[superguns]

shut the hell up, the soccer team has nothing to do w/ the decisions the government makes.

[brentman87]

preki!!!

[k9buzby]

Preki's a God.

[fldude]

Why do you care so much?

[EmirofShmo]

Brazil still owns the U.S.'s ass!

[futbolt]

yet brazil did not score against the USA. maybe they were too busy thinking about the drug lords at home

[EmirofShmo]

Big f****** deal, he scored against Brazil one stinking

time. Even the sun shines on a dog's ass every once in

a while! He still sucked!!

[koalabear555]

Preki's kid, nikolai, plpayed on my old premiere team fora bout 5 months.

[EmirofShmo]

Preki?? Just call him Prick! He sucked!

[tieguy05]

o yeah really sucked thats why he scored against brazil.

[tallsmile28]

Preki was a great player. He almost never started for the US. He subbed in the second half and had a knack for scoring.

[davenhl600]

so ugly

[finsfan]

Sweet!