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On this date 1️⃣8️⃣ years ago,
🏟 Sapporo Dome, Japan
⚽️ England 1️⃣➖0️⃣ Argentina
🏆 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣2️⃣ FIFA World Cup.
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David Beckham exorcised the demons of France ‘9️⃣8️⃣ by scoring the only goal of the game for England against Argentina in this exciting group stage encounter.
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而那一個皮球
輕輕的飄飄的
彎彎的曲曲的
擊中了老馬的頭...
The vote for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Goal of the Tournament has now concluded. Benjamin Pavard's strike for Équipe de France de Football against AFA - Selección Argentina was chosen as the best! #WorldCupGOT
外行人看足球：
如同我截取的那段評論，冰島有最棒的團隊！最棒的團隊精神！
冰島防守真的太厲害了，整場幾乎是阿根廷在進攻，冰島一直防守救球，看得好累，哈哈哈
Icelandic team spirit rocks!
“Another missed penalty by Leo Messi but who cares because what a match for Iceland! 👏👏👏 Congratulations on your first ever goal at the World Cup by Finbogasson and first point against two-time world champions 🇮🇸 Also fantastic saves by Hannes Halldórsson 🇮🇸 Of course there also should have been another penalty for Argentina in the last 15 minutes but they obviously had bad luck today.
Argentina has stars, Iceland has THE TEAM. Áfram Ísland! 🇮🇸🇮🇸🇮🇸”
It was a record setting night for 6'0" USA guard Allen Iverson (Philadelphia 76ers). Iverson scored a USA Olympic Qualifying single game record 28 points (surpassing Gary Payton's previous mark of 25 points set July 19, 1999, versus the Dominican Republic) and made a USA single game record seven 3-pointers (besting Tim Hardaway's record of five made 3-pointers set against Argentina, July 17, 1999) to lead the USA to a 111-71 victory over Canada (2-2) Monday night in the first game of second round action at the FIBA Americas Olympic Qualifying Tournament in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The win improved the USA to 5-0, 4-0 in second round standings and upped the Americans' Olympic qualifying tournament win streak to 20 consecutive games.
The U.S. earned the win without its leading scorer, Tracy McGrady (Orlando Magic), who did not play because of a tight back. McGrady is listed as day-to-day.
The USA will look to continue its winning ways Tuesday in a much anticipated 5:00 p.m. (EDT) game against Argentina (3-1). Last year at the FIBA World Championship in Indianapolis, it was Argentina who put a halt to the USA senior team's remarkable 58 game win streak that dated back to the 1992 Americas Olympic Qualifying Tournament. Meeting on Sept. 4, 2002, in second round action, Argentina shocked the Americans 87-80 and went on to finish 81 and claimed the silver medal at the World Championship, but only after falling 8477 in overtime to Yugoslavia in the gold medal game.
"It was a good feeling because I felt every shot was going in," said Iverson, who shot 10-for-13 for the night and was 7-for-8 from 3-point. "Usually when I get in a 'zone,' I am getting some layups and jumpers and maybe some threes. But tonight, they were all behind the arc.
"The last one...I just felt like it was going in, because all the rest of them went in. I felt like everything I put up was going in," Iverson added
"I never saw that!" said USA mentor Larry Brown (Detroit Pistons) when asked if he recalled ever seeing Iverson shoot like that from 3-point. "I've been with him for six years but this has been the best two weeks he's ever played. Just trying to do the right thing, taking what's available.
"We don't go to him like we went to him in Philly. He would probably tell you, it's fun playing because when you're open here, everybody shares the ball. I think he makes other players better and the people around him, make him better. That was an amazing shooting display. I don't think there was any doubt. Any of his shots! Even the last one, when I was trying to get him out. He just got in a rhythm and I didn't see him force one shot. He just took what was there."
After falling behind the U.S. 12-7, Canada out scored the USA 21-9 over the first quarter's final 5:43 to grab a 28-21 advantage. In need of a spark, the USA got it from Ray Allen (Seattle SuperSonics) who came in off the bench and accounted for 10 points during a 15-3 run by the Americans that saw them take charge 36-31 with 5:21 to play before half. Canada cut the lead to 38-36, but the USA then reeled off 11 consecutive points, four coming from Vince Carter (Toronto Raptors), to increase its lead to 49-36. When the USA retired to its locker room at halftime, it was ahead 51-39.
Canada, which hit 42.9 percent of its shots in the first quarter, was stymied in quarter two and made just 3-of-15 (20.0 percent) of its field goal attempts. The USA made a blistering 12-of-20 shots for a 60.0 percent shooting touch in the second quarter.
The third quarter was all Iverson. Hitting his first 3-pointer with 7:41 to play, by the end of the third quarter Iverson had found the bottom of the net from beyond the 3-point line seven times, including a 35-footer with less than a second remaining as the USA had surged ahead 82-59. The lights-out shooting continued in the fourth quarter and the U.S. sailed in for the 111-71 victory.
