Transcript for USA ties 1-1 with Wales in opening World Cup match
- Got to go to the World Cup. In the opening match for Team USA, fans thought the team had a big win until the final moments. Will Reeve is live in Doha with more for us. Good morning, Will.
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- Hello there, Robin. We were just minutes away from a huge win, a huge 3 points in our group. Timothy Weah on a great goal set up by Christian Pulisic. But then in the 82nd minute, chaos, catastrophe, [WELSH], that's Welsh for Wales.
They scored on a penalty kick and that is how the game ended, 1-1. The US is guaranteed two more games in this round robin before they can try to advance to the knockout stage. The top two teams will advance.
And England right now looks like the runaway winner of our group. Speaking of England, their captain wore a FIFA-branded armband on the pitch yesterday, after he and seven other European captains were planning on wearing rainbow armbands in support of LGBTQ causes. But FIFA said, anybody doing that would get a yellow card. So those European federations relented.
And the Iranian players, England's opponents, staged a silent protest of their own. They pointedly did not sing their own national anthem, while some fans in the stands wore shirts, saying, "Women, life, freedom," in support of the Iranian protest movement sweeping the globe.
The captain of the team afterwards saying, "We want them to know we are with them, and by their side, and share their pain." And by the way, guys, Leo Messi and Argentina lost today. That's the World Cup.
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