One of my Favorite Hornfans Memories

With the 2022 World Cup starting in a few days I wanted to reminisce about one of my favorite memories as a poster on this site.

A little background first. So I grew up in Germany, actually West Germany at the time in the 1970's. I lived on a British base outside of Monchengladbach (my father was US army liaison to British army in northern West Germany so we were one of three American families on this huge British base). This was the era of Beckenbauer and Cruyff and with all my British friends being futbol mad I grew up a huge fan and got to go through the '78 World Cup with all of them. Suffice to say my love for futbol has remained my entire life, so much that I go to FC Dallas games all the time, watch the EPL on most Saturday mornings and when World Cup's come around (men's and women's) I follow them obsessively.

All of that is lead in to one of my favorite memories as a hornfans poster, the 2002 World Cup. That World Cup was in Japan and South Korea and the games were all in the middle of the night or really early in the morning. I remember getting up in the middle of the night to watch the USA opening game against Portugal. I got up and turned on my computer, and while watching the pregame logged in to hornfans and lo and behold there was a thread in the other sports forum for the game. I was thrilled to see multiple posters up at that ungodly hour watching the game like me and like an online sports bar we all followed along together as the USA upset Portugal 3-2. A few days later it was an even more ungodly hour as the USA drew with South Korea 1-1 and the number of posters up in the middle of the night grew. A loss to Poland almost derailed the USA but they scraped through in second in the group setting up a round of 16 game with Mexico. The number of posters up at 2 in the morning for that game was astonishing and the USA won its biggest game to date in a World Cup 2-0, dos a cero was already a rallying cry for USA fans and after that game it became the answer to every Mexican chant at every subsequent game. The run ended a few days later in the quarterfinals to Germany and the other sports board moved on to other things but for me that two weeks in the middle of the night with my fellow hornfans posters watching futbol was something I have always looked back on fondly.

So as the 2022 World Cup gets going next week I wanted to just call back to that time and share a great memory.

Go USA!

 

Cool story! A little surprising (to me anyway) to think that there were Hornfans following a soccer game during the wee hours.

I propose a new one for Longhorn fans this year: cuarenta y nueve a cero!

 

Been watching all the games on my phone at work during week and of course had split screen with USA-England and Texas-Baylor on Black Friday. I almost had a heart attack yesterday in the second half but the USA is on to the round of 16 in this years WC and plays Netherlands Saturday at 9 a.m. central.