Soccer is supposed to become more than a blip on the US sports scene because of Landon Donovan’s late goal against Algeria that sent Americans into a coast-to-coast football frenzy. The fever will wear off in a couple of weeks when the World Cup ends and the MLB All-Star game and NFL training camps take center stage.
The Houston Dynamo and Toronto FC played in ESPN’s MLS game of the week on Thursday. It was a normal match with a little less floppnig than the World Cup games but a blown offside call that wiped away a Dynamo goal gave the game a good FIFA feel. The most exciting part of the 1-1 tie was Houston’s Joseph Ngwenya getting into a neck grabbing contest with Toronto’s Nana Attakora-Gyan. The fight broke out because Ngwenya played on after committing a foul and resulted in Ngwenya and FC’s Julian de Guzman being red carded.
Here’s how the fight looked from the stands at BMO Field:
