During Episode 14 of The U.S. Soccer Podcast, USMNT head coach Gregg Berhalter looked back on the phantom handball that was called against him leading to a late Costa Rica penalty kick in the USA’s 2-1 World Cup Qualifying defeat at the Ticos on July 23, 2000. Download/Rate/Subscribe to the full episode on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Two things
As much as everyone hates VAR this is why it’s needed
And the AR was at a better vantage point than the center and should have clarified the call for the center
And then 2 years later he was the victim of an uncalled handball by Torsten Frings in the World Cup quarterfinal vs. Germany. Man can't catch a break.
Like three minutes before the referee had forgiven a penalty to the States so at the end it was fair enough
Come on guys! Be prepared yes. Also train to play better even through the expected bias when playing outside the country. When up by 3 or 4 goals and d/b/c enough there will be no reason to play out of negativity
The Prendergast had it in for the US. Never ref a good game when the US was playing
Fire him please
Very nice to watch this bit, it's nice to see Berhalter as a person rather than a coach from time to time
No wonder hes pissed about no var at concacaf
And in 2002 in the WQ, while the Gregg was on the pitch, a German player used his hand to bat the ball out of the goal and that wasn't called as a handball.
What is shows is that FIFA has consistently rigged the game against the USA, and that if we ever want to win we have to dominate beyond the margin of fraud.
Unpopular Opinion: It was a Handball. Watch it in slow motion starting at :49. Ball hits his head, goes down right, disappears behind his body, and then pops back out to the left and up. There is no other explanation than he accidentally hit it with his hand.
This is not even the MOST ICONIC [phantom] handball in US Soccer history. As that event was just under two years later on the 21st of June, 2002, in South Korea on the World’s Largest Soccer stage known as “The one that got away” or in more modern terms of today, “What if”! ⚽️🇺🇸⚽️
…still remember it…even the name of the offical…