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  • GOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!

  • This shit face ref is one ignorant mother fucker. Screw that SOAB, he can suck his daddy's dick and cry about it in 10 months for all I care. Rot in hell you dick bag and I'll see you there.

  • fuc@#ng referee! pieece of sheeee-it

  • I never expected the US to get very far any way and seriously the refs during some of these games were awful but anyway i really wish there was some sort of review system. it doesn't have to be all the time because that would ruin the game but if they gave the coaches a certain number of challenge flags maybe 2 or 3 like in american football then it would be better.

  • @Jaysonzzzzzz Yeah, this would be great! Just like NFL. I've been thinking about the same.

  • De fato, dentro de no máximo 15 ou 20 anos, veremos USA campeão do Mundo. 

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  • There's about 5 different fouls occurring on that play.......none of them being committed by a US player.....

  • I love how you can see the Slovenia players holding down our players

  • Also, fix the title....if the player was offside, the refferee would have put his hand straight up in the air, not pointed for a free kick for Slovenia, you just confuse more people with this title

  • The foul is at the top of the screen at about 0:16 seconds...player at the top of the box clearly pushes the slovenian player in order to get some space

    As for the clutching and grabbing in the 18-yard box, thats just part of soccer, the Americans would be doing the same if it was a slovenian free kick.

    The push-off is the primary foul....much the same as a push off in American Football is a penalty

  • lol @ bocanegra in a headlock

  • fifa referees = failures

  • i see 6 algeria players holding or grabbing our players. yet foul on us. mmk.

  • could someone please just guess what the fuck the call was besides offsides? it clearly wasnt but i wouldnt be surprised if that helen keller of a ref called it but seriously someone give me a god damn guess!!!!

  • Pause @ 36 seconds. Either the slovenia players are extremely horny and want to touch some man boobs or committing fouls. Idk which.

  • wtf this shouldve been a goal, all of the USA team was clearly behind the Slovenia defense

  • what was the call in the end anyways??

  • @ripstickboys12 they didnt allow the goal. he said it was offsides. then he said it was a foul on the usa players, when clearly every one of our players was being bear hugged by slovenia. which is absolutely ridiculous.

  • @biggestgreendayfan no i think he just called a foul cuz the linesmen never lifted his flag

  • @ripstickboys12

    Yes, I believe that the referee intended on calling a foul PRIOR to when the ball was kicked.

    The proper restart would be to take disciplinary measures (warn the players that are grabbing shirts, etc.), and then let the U.S. REKICK.

    You can clearly see that at 0:17 and at 0:03 that he is already blowing the whistle before Donavan takes the kick, indicating that the foul took place before the kick.

  • WHAT? I should be ref so I can see better that black guy. I'm white. So bad ref. Do not hate USA, but he did now hate us. Don't you know that USA helped so many countries in the 20th century. But that guy's country was probably helped by us. The ref's name is Redouane Achik from Morocco, Africa.

  • @SimsMikeBro AHAHAHAAHAH! you're kidding right?

  • im blind, im deaf, so i should be a reff!!!

  • was there a foul? yes it was and it was and carlos bocanegra (#3) did it if you look closely from 0:33 you can see he pulled pecnik (#7). if he hadnt pulled pecnik he would have at least deflected the ball.

  • @SweetBoy1221 then why was it called offside?

  • @razorback1309 it was not called offside, the ref himself said that he saw a foul !

  • @SweetBoy1221 Every1 was pulling and pushing. More Slovenian people then American ppl

  • it wasn't ! =)

  • It was a goal

  • thats a goal

  • 1st off what was the call?? and 2nd i double dare that ref to walk down my street and come out alive.

  • Poor Bradley getting surprise buttsecks 0:33

  • I like this blue jersey. Let's don't change it please. It has character. Like the USA. Like us americans.

  • wow that wasn't offsides if anything slovania should have gotten a penalty for molesting our players lol

  • @mlahk7

    It is SLOVENIA NOT SLOVANIA.

  • @TheSeBa58 lol what are you like a grammar nazi?

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  • we were screwed, but how much fun was this summers world cup?! ill be interested to see if mo edu can live up to the potential he has in his game. expecting that michael bradley continues to grow offensively and mo does not move to centerback, we could have two veteran studs at the most important positions on the field. this is the true progress us soccer is looking for.

  • how fantastic is it that donovan's goal vs algeria won us the group and sent slovenia out in favor of england? karma is a bitch.

  • Obviously a goal, but FIFA is an old-mans company and they are not in for change. So this will keep on happening.

  • I don't know why the hell I'm watching this again, but the perfect view to see what the ref "thought" he saw is at the end where it appears Bocanegra gets in a little scruff and might, need I say, might have fouled. Only problem was, MB was getting molested on the outside and Edu was fouled just getting to the ball. End of the day, the WC deserves better officiating. Lest we forget, two goals disallowed for the US this past WC. And don't get me started about Frings' Fingers and WC 2002.

  • the ref didnt even know what he called

    if it was offside.the assistant ref never raised his flag

    if he called a foul.i see that eslovenia was the ones who were fouling

  • @Cod323GOD

    it doesnt matter the wistle blow before the goal was scored so fact that it went in doesnt matter. they werent rubed they were not in play when the goal was scored.

  • @Crazylalalalala You're incorrect. The offsides was called on the goal, not on the "play" before it. The fact is, no one on the USA team was offsides, meaning that the goal should not have been disallowed. The ref refused to explain it. Right there, red flags. Off sides isn't a particularly ambiguous thing when it's that clear. They were robbed of a goal, due to the fact that the play was clean, the shot was good and it was then disallowed due to a bs call by the ref. Learn soccer and grammar.

  • @wabitgirl

    the whistle blew before the goal was scored. thus anything that happened afterwords is irrelevant.

    even the most novice of soccer players and fans knows that you cant play after the whistle is blown.

    its always funny when people comment of grammar rather then the argument. In that entire comment you have not commented on what i said. seriously i only wrote two sentences both of them were about the whistle thing and in all that comment not a single thing about it. tsc tsc tsc

  • @Crazylalalalala He blew the whistle because he tought he screwed up on the play that caused the Free Kick to be take. its over dude we made it past to the round of 16 but couldn't pull through, this things happen is football(Soccer) all the time, a good team never complains all they do is create another opportunity and win, we didn't do that against Ghana

  • @fidelamaya26

    i knw i was just trying to explain to some of these people that its irrelevant sense the whistle was blown before the goal was made. just pointing out a technicality and for some reason they give me these sad stories.

    guess i need to work on my verbal communication.

  • @Crazylalalalala yea its funny im a loyal US fan, and ill tell you i was like the ref cheated us, but at the end of the day i was like:"Well just gotta win against Algeria" Which btw was and amazing game!

  • @fidelamaya26

    yes it was

  • @Crazylalalalala Fine. He blew the whistle before the shot was taken. But why did he blow the whistle? We don't know. Neither the Slovenian's nor the American's stopped playing when he blew the whistle. Whether or not he had blown it before the play, the USA would have put in the goal. Because he blew the whistle, even if it was before the goal itself was scored, he effectively disallowed the goal. It's a matter of the call being BS and because of that, it preventing a perfect goal from counting

  • @wabitgirl

    he blew the whistle and thats it.

    effectively... whistle blew thus no goal.

    its a moot point the US made it to the next stage and lost. it doesnt matter.

  • @wabitgirl it was a fould on dempsey.... look at another replay. he like tackled a slovenian player to get free to make his run.... he did it right in fron tof the ref.. look haha.

  • It doesn't matter what the ref saw or didn't see or who was or wasn't offside. Edu made contact with the ball AFTER the whistle had gone. Hence, the goal was not legitimate. End of story.

  • If anything there was a defender holding Bradley's arm back. The intense rage that built in me was unheard of at the moment this goal was scripted away from us.

  • Offsides was not the call.

    The ref thought he saw a contact foul.

  • @DallasHammster okay if it was contact foul why didnt we get the pen kick. the refs were out to screw the americans over

  • @castlevamp We didn't get the PK because the ref called the contact foul he imagined he saw on us. That's why he disallowed the goal - because he thought a US player committed a foul first.

    Yes the refs in the US matches were horrible. And some of us (Dallas / Fort Worth American Outlaws) suspect Algeria of being in on the fix, because they didn't play to win in the following game (they would have advanced if they did).

  • K[U]RWA [S]PIERDALAJ SZM[A]TO

  • i have to say i hate the US but that was B.S

  • stop at 0:05 look closley

  • lo2 sedzia kretyn .p

  • this ref should be shot

  • i cant believe its not a goal, he is well onside and there was no pushing or shuving

  • holding on 18

  • not to mention all the holding

  • edu is onside , and could of had a penalty for holding the bald man xD

  • fucking ref is probably from ghana

    

  • @MULDERFOX999 he is from mali

  • so the referee is saying that it isn't a goal but the slovenians can hold the usa players as it was a teeddy bear??? the ref is blind.

  • wtf it this ? offside really ? ref's a shit

  • clearly a goal and the slovenian player grabbing the american player deserves a yellow card

  • Even though some people make mistakes, there was an error by linesman not to call for the ref. It could have easily been fixed if he would have called the center man and told him the goal should stand. And it was a mistake to let the ref with hold the facts of why he blew his whistle during and after the game.

  • DEF NOT. PAUSE IT WHEN THE BALL IS KICKED. PERFECTLY ON SIDES

  • ahhhh ppl......stop it ! the ref is a HUMAN ! AND HUMANS DO MISTAKE FFS ! fucking kids......and think that way......slovenia have 2 milion ppl....how much have usa ? oh and did u know ? slovenia have a world champion in box, great basketball team football team, we are top in some gymnastics, gold medal in olympics...i wana tell u that we are n1 performance by population...i respect usa....but comon....we are FUCKING " MILLION AND WE ARE DAMN GOOD AT A LOOT OF THINGS ! srsly......

  • fuck that nigger

  • that was bull, they slovenians were bearhugging the usa players

  • [U]n[S]topp[A]ble!

    Only the Refs can stop us!

  • @fhoieoifejnf hahaha and like almost every other team in the cup mate calm it down lol

  • I hope his family was killed 4 that bs call!

  • @bbs757 i agree that it was a terrible call, but woah. dont take it that far. you really need to calm down.

  • ARE YOU GUYS FREAKIN BLIND? EDU WASN'T OFFSIDE. THE REF CALLED BRADLEY OFFSIDE. IT WAS A CLOSE CALL. STOP BLAMING ON THE REF!!!

  • @koreansx

    The slovenians were clearly bearhugging the American players, and yet the ref disallowed the goal even though it was the americans being fouled

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  • @koreansx edu called the offsides... and everyone was clearly onsides

  • To me U.S.A. #4 was in the offside position, but # 19 was the one who scored the goal. Personally i think the Jar that called the offside jumped the gun thinking #4 was going to recieve the ball. But in any case, we are all humans and we all make mistakes. So before anyone judges these men, put yourselves in their shoes. You would need many years of experience, upgrading, taking tests, and being assesed by other officials many times just to get to the MLS level and this level takes more exp.

  • Who the hell cares, the US beat Slovenia in all honesty in this game, in the group...Oh and kicked their ass in hoops, so suck it Slovenia.

  • @PlyrJM25 the 1st half...u were scared of little slovenia...a slovenia that have 2 milion ppl....c-c-c show some respect for othersd u fucktard !

  • i hate the american football team with all my guts, but this was truely robed

  • @Metalfreak845 y do u hate us? because we've been playing well for once?

  • GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAL!!!!!!!!!!

  • Its no offside. When edu received the ball from the corner I counted the goalkeeper and 1 defender as being in front of him. When he kicked the ball into the goal I counted the goalkeeper as being in front of him and 2 defenders as being level with him which, tell me if I'm wrong, which would make any offside call BULLSHIT.As for the Americans fouling in the box, I did not see one. I did, however, see the Slovenians HUGGING the Americans to try to prevent them from getting to the ball.

  • as long as there are free kicks, there will always be pushing and shoving in the box. there's no way a foul was committed by the usa.

  • How could the center ref have seen if it was offsides! He behind the everyone!

  • i woulnd mind seeing that ref be stomped out by 50 ppl

  • the fired the ref after this match :)))

  • 0:27-0:31 he came from offscreen for heaven's sake! its impossible that he was offsides!!

  • SLOVENIA ARE CHEATS

  • FIFA made a big ass mistake getting refs from countries that are not known for football...

  • gooooooooaaaaal

  • Clear goal, this wasn't an offside. Regardless, Spain won the World Cup, so there's not much left to argue over.

  • No way! The ball was already in play and no one of his team was infront of him!

  • i know the world cup wanted referee's from all over the world, but how good can a malian referee be? (i dont want to offend anybody), that is a clear goal

  • spain wonned world cup period who the fuck cares all about this dumb reffere shit whats done is done cant change the past. i was pissed altough at this decision

  • retarded

  • yo somebody needs to go find this fucking nigger ref, tie him to a tree and lynch his ass, fuck you, fuck the country your from, if your in the next wc...which i will be at, yall dumb ass nigger better not be in my countries game

  • that ref is a bitch

  • Usa sucks! they got lucky if it wasnt for that mistake by that slovenian defender

    then slovenia would of won that americans are Pathetic:)

  • @europefootballfan least we made it out of group play, and it was a goal so yes we should have won, and just because slovenia left the world cup with SHIIIIT doesnt mean u gotta say were pathetic

  • @MrAdmission1pound okay and you know how lucky you guys got when you played england if england had david james you guys would of lost but at least ghana beat you and it wasn't the only time you lost to ghana just like in 2006

    

  • @europefootballfan ummm what do u mean lucky? we were loosing in all three of our group play games and came back in everyone, and no we didnt get lucky, in the slovakia game we got completely screwed over, and fifa agrees we did because they suspended that ref cause they realized there was no call to be made, and yea ghanas a good tem and they played better than us, least we didnt concede four goals haha stupid yellow toothed brit

  • @MrAdmission1pound haha slovakia? wow nice job moron it was slovenia you idiot and learn how to spell what are like 4 years old? and tem? whats wrong you cant spell team right I dont wanna talk with someone who is 4 years old

  • @europefootballfan this has absolutly nothing to do with soccer and you already got your shit ripped open by some other guys, but hey we dont suck, who would win in a war pussy

  • I saw that on TV I was like what the f**k it was a legit goal, man the ref is so bad and stupid. Well at least he was suspended for a little while.

  • america! if this was a goal u can suck my balls, and dick!!

  • wth why is everyone saying we should call soccer football. wth is the difference? why cant we just call football soccer? its just our way of saying football. its pretty much the exact same thing as when you call someone a nickname.

  • @brianrulz18 Because people can be insufferable snobs about the stupidest shit.

  • this was the worst world cup ever. because of referees and vuvuzelas. thank god it ended.

  • that was bullshit the ref sucked 

  • Despite lacking real first class quality, the USA played a very enjoyable football. There spirit and persistance is amazing. As for the ref decision, all what I can say the ref robbed the US a clear goal and 4 penalties in one go which will go down as one of the worst ever decisions in world cup history.

  • are you kiding me?? fractions?? the american players were kicking, punching, draging our player altrought the match. The ref was stupid couse he allowed that. Dont talk about football if you call it soccer.

  • @xdoom8 fuck off you faggot USA raped this awful team

  • as much bullshit as this call was, it is good that it brings up so much discussion in the US because it shows that we are gaining a passion for the game and with a few changes to the team, the next world cup, a large amount of the country can back a team possible of going the entire way

  • that was the most retarted call ever!!!!!!!! usa is the fucking best team ever!

  • @WWED245 lol why didnt they win world cup then

  • @Hinata1632 Good One lol

  • @WWED245 you want to say the most funny team... You have 307mi people slovenija has got 2mi and we almost won you stupid idiots.. When donavan will live your team amerika wont know what fotball is...

  • A complete and utter joke of a decision. No-one is offside and the only players being fouled are US players. I feel gutted for Mo Edu but at least you still finished top of the group though.

  • what song is playing in the background? solid groove

  • Unless someone knows a person the read the refs review of his calls, no one outside of FIFA knows what the call on the field was. It was never told what the call was, whether it be an offside, foul, or something else. The assistant ref never raised his flag for an offside, so I don't see how that even comes into play though. This ref also gave a USA player a yellow card for an intentional hand ball when the player didn't even touch the ball with his hand. The ball hit his face.

  • I was at the game in line with the 18 yard box on the linesmans side & the linesman did not, repeat, DID NOT flag for offside. The referee would not have called an offside foul, that's not his call. Although it's not unheard of it's extremely unlikely he blew a foul for offside. More likely he thinks he has seen a foul in the box by an American. Note I say 'thinks' because there's no foul there only a perfectly good goal. I'm Australian and I'm here to say the US were clearly gypped here.

  • @munrubenmario I was there too. I had already known how blind these refs were before Edu's goal. There was the yellow to Findley because the ball hit him in the face, then the yellow to the last Slovenian defender who dragged down Altidore and was given the minimal punishment of a yellow, So I, just like you, instantly looked at the linesmen as soon as Edu's shot hit the back of the net, and sure enough, no flag was raised. This goal disallowed was from a phantom foul. USA 3, Slovenia 2. Final.

  • @munrubenmario also USA had a hold on them. well, more like a hug

  • @munrubenmario

    The referee is the main man at the game. He decides what is what, on many occasions a ref overrules his linesmen. So if the Linesman says not but the ref says yes, then it is yes.

    Pity because it was a clear goal.

  • nooooo way no offside

  • There're like 10 fouls on this play. The ref called one of them. So why are so many people complaining?

  • if you look the moment (less then a second) after the vid pauses the US player closest to the camera is past the slovenian player, so put yourself in the refs shoes your watching the kick he kicks it you look over and us player is offside you have no instant replay and you are expected to make a decison instantly and this is a game changer I would have made the same call due to the fact that it appeared offside and because it keeps the score even (you dont want to award a bad goal in a tie)

  • @iamalwaysright0 Really? I would have relied on my line assistant ref on the line, because he would have had a better line of sight.

  • @iamalwaysright0 He didnt call an offside, he called Bradley for a foul. We think...FIFA never explained what the foul was...

  • @iamalwaysright0 Before Bradley was offside there was fouls committed by the Slovenian team, just look at the holding and hugging. There were infractions against the US team even before Bradley became offside, why didn't the ref call those obvious penalties?.

  • plus that ref wasnt the offside caller WTF

  • bookie control

  • 2-2 was a fair out come to be honest both teams played excellent and that goal would have been a bit unfair on slovenia imho, of course is USA had been eliminated because of this i'd be pissed

  • the ref said there was a foul and there was ON SLOVENIA!

  • There has always been stupid errors made by referees in the World Cup.

    Concacaf teams won't get a fair shake at the World Cup because FIFA wants certains teams to advance and other not to. So bleep FIFA.

  • just STFU americans it wasn't a fair game

    it wasn't fair for us cause you played rugby!!!!!

  • It was a goal, but this is is one of the things that happen in this great sport. I'm sorry for you USA, soccer matches are not always fair. With what you say about "acting", if you really hate that, stick to what you think is right, and once you start kicking asses your way, You'll enjoy victory twice as much. Still, this is not a "fair" sport, the rules are fair, but "cheating" takes place here too.

    Cheers from Uruguay.

  • yeah this is goal fucking referee mother fucker i will kill you mother fucker african of shit

  • whatever its over, U.S. got beat by Ghana anyway so it doesn't matter, and I thought that FIFA refs were notoriously bad

  • I'm english but this ruined the game for me, it's clearly a goal. That ref is an idiot.

  • @Volentrix It's a goal but two of the slovenia players have USA players pretty much in their arms

  • @justingamemaster

    i know, it's stupid, why does he disallow a goal when it's clearly the slovenians committing the foul on the USA players?! :/

  • @Volentrix to be fair the ref didn't disallow the goal, he blew the whistle before edu scored. what he blew the whistle for, who knows

  • @xTheOxx lol! STFU!

  • that was so a goal!

  • Attention Americans: the goal did not count because Bradley was offsides. Fouls had nothing to do with it.

    It was a VERY close call and easily could have gone either way.

  • @xTheOxx safe to say. YOU are an idiot.

  • @sexyshubhi007

    Safe to say you knew next to nothing about football - real football - until about three weeks ago.

  • @xTheOxx right right. I know nothing. That's why I have been playing "real football" since I was 7 years old. Why don't you get your shit straight before you start accusing people you don't even know. I'm guessing the 3 or 4 guys in the play that were being bear hugged could have gone "either way" as well, according to your point of view.

  • @xTheOxx offside? from what angle?

  • @jumpinjamaica5

    Freeze frame at 00:19. The ball isn't in play yet and Bradley is slightly ahead of his defender. If Bradley had deflected the ball in the goal or towards another player, it wouldn't be an offsides, but he didn't. Edu did.

    Like I said, it was very close and could have gone either way.

  • @xTheOxx LOL HAHAHAHAAH STFU :)

  • @xTheOxx

    Ahead of the defender? Bradley is being HELD by the defender! It was a horrible call and we can't take it back. A bunch of bull calls were made this year, and now the refs that made them are being fired by FIFA..

  • @xTheOxx same frame, ball is already in the air. if it was on the ground, then its offside. but its a few millimetres in the air. if the ref is sharp enough to spot THAT, he should have spotted this. guess it went against the US anyway : they lost to ghana..

  • @xTheOxx Ref did not raise arm straight up for indirect, so don't know if foul was offside. Didn't really lift arm straight out for a direct either, just a half-assed 45 degreee angle, cause he's making it up. Can't see if AR raised flag for offside either. Bradley not involved or interfering in play, so can't be offside on him anyway.

  • @xTheOxx and if you were really a stickler for soccer you would use the term offside, not offsides