In the 91st minute, stoppage time, after another awful off-side call had cost Team USA a goal earlier in the match, captain Landon Donovan scored the goal that that sends America into the group of 16. In a split second, the boys in the Red, White, and Blue went from the brink of elimination to winning their group.

USA! USA! USA!

Asked about the earlier disallowed goal, a glory-drenched Donovan responded, and I paraphrase: “We embody what Americans are all about. We can moan about or we can keep going. We’re alive baby.”