Cup final once again proves soccer unique

Posted on July 21, 2011 |

• Sports Column

By Andy Kirkaldy

Once again, we learned that what the rest of the world calls football is a fickle sport.

In the championship game of the World Cup for women’s soccer, the American team had more than a dozen chances to score, but converted just twice — although both were sensational goals.

The first came courtesy of player of the match (just one observer’s opinion) Alex Morgan. It came on her lethal left-footed strike after Morgan beat her defender to Megan Rapinoe’s beautifully struck long ball into Japan’s end.

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