The Revs Shut Down Atlas, Shouldn’t The Nats Have Done The Same? An Appraisal, plus An Interview with Michael Videira.

July 6, 2009

A VIEW FROM THE FORT
By Jim Dow

This past Sunday produced two absorbing soccer dramas; one acted out on the world stage, the other an international affair as well but with strictly local interest, or was it the other way around?

While the U.S. Nats were absorbing an emotionally cruel but likely invaluable lesson on a skanky pitch in Johannesburg Stevie Nicol’s Baby Revs gave their youthful Atlas opposites an educated tutorial in how to milk a lead, resist provocation and run the clock out, something that their new-to-prime-time international betters were unfortunately unable to bring off.

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