We Are the Champions

Yesterday I had a cool experience. I watched my national team hoist a trophy after winning a semi-major international tournament. Yeah, OK, so it was only the Gold Cup (the championship of the North & Central American and Caribbean region - CONCACAF) and it took PKs to wrest the cup from that mighty soccer power Panama, but it's still a championship. In fact, it's the third time the US has won the Gold Cup, but the first since our rise to prominence in the last World Cup and the first for the new generation of US players (Donovan, Beasley, etc.). And it is the second-most important trophy we can win, behind the World Cup itself. Kudos to Univisison for such extensive coverage of the final (even if I didn't understand a word of it)!

So, hooray for us!