Alex Morgan's Special Strike takes US into Finals
The Match which had to decide one team of Olympics Women's soccer between USA and Canada was tied 3-3, extra time was ticking by... Penalty...Strikes... misses...all sorts of thoughts started crossing the minds... Destiny was about to play the most important role in the crucial encounter.... but suddenly a Young, talented player made the difference between the sides... her name was Alex Morgan.
"It takes just one chance, one moment of brilliance for someone to do something special," U.S. co-captain Abby Wambach said, after the match.
That moment came in the 123rd minute of a game packed with more drama than a high school hallway, when Team USA's young star, forward Alex Morgan, out-jumped, out-willed and outlasted the Canada defense and headed in the second goal of her budding Olympic career to give the Americans a 4-3 win.
It is a moment that will forever be remembered for propelling the U.S. women's national team into its fifth Olympic final.
"I can't remember ever feeling this way," Morgan said, still shaking nearly two hours after the game. "I've never wanted to cry on a field after scoring a goal."
But that's exactly what she did. As she felt the weight of her teammates piling on top of her, the gravity of what she had just accomplished began to sink in, and at the bottom of that pile, "I shed a tear," she said. "We believed from the first minute until the last. Each player individually is better than each player on Canada. But when you come together as a team, you can't break us."
From the first minute, this game was physical, and when it went into extra minutes, it was clear it would be the players who had run that one extra wind sprint, spent one extra hour in the weight room, that would decide the match. "In this game, it was who's fitter, who's stronger, and we showed that in the last couple minutes," Morgan said.
"It was a rugby match out there," said goalkeeper Hope Solo. "You never knew what was going to happen."
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