After landing in Japan and going to a customer dinner, I stayed awake to watch the Japan / Paraguay game (11:00pm local time). Fell asleep in the 2nd half. Woke up to see Japan bounce a PK off the cross bar.
I was also in Asia for the 2002 WC. I can remember watching the USA / Mexico Round of 16 game in a bar, and when the USA scored, I was the only one standing up and cheering… (granted it was Singapore) I wonder if this would have happened if I was in a bar overseas during the USA / Algeria game.
It was an average WC for the USA. They need a striker. Time to start getting all those undersized shooting guards and converting them to soccer forwards.