There's nothing else in sports that engenders consistently spastic spectator celebrations like a soccer goal does. Granted, as soccer's naysayers will be quick to point out, this is mainly because scoring in the sport sometimes called football is so frustratingly rare and unexpected.

Late yesterday morning Landon Donovan and company maximized the dramatics and the histrionics with a stoppage-time goal against Algeria, which sent the U.S. soccer team through to the World Cup's second round.

If you were already on U.S. soccer's growing bandwagon, you surely let out a piercing shout when the ball hit the back of the net. And then you probably danced a violent, fist-pumping jig that badly frightened your co-workers.

We want you to relive the feeling again, with our YouTube roundup of fan reactions to the most glorious goal in U.S. soccer history. Read on to check out the unadulterated joy of patriotism.


It is essential that soccer fans have understanding wives or girlfriends.

These frattily-attired youngsters took time out from icing each other to celebrate Donovan's famous strike.

We'd really like to learn more about this handsome fellow and his spartan living conditions.

Being that this is in California, they get extra credit for getting crazy before 9 a.m.

However, when you're in Vegas, you are expected to get crazy no matter what the time of day.

Louisiana has had a tough go of late, but oil spills are the last thing on these fans in Baton Rouge's mind.

Who says soccer won't play in the heartland? These Cornhuskers are plenty enthused when Donovan puts the U.S. through to the knockout round.