[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 8]
[House]
[Pages 11073-11074]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             CONGRATULATIONS TO U.S. WORLD CUP SOCCER TEAM

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Dreier) is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I do not know if any of my colleagues have 
done this, but I simply wanted to rise and extend congratulations to 
the U.S. World Cup soccer team. Over the last weeks, we have had the 
chance to watch a phenomenal group of individuals under the leadership 
of Coach

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Arena move all the way to the quarter finals. We saw the spectacular 
win earlier this week over our dear friends from Mexico.
  Today, unfortunately, we saw them lose 1-0 to Germany. There is 
little doubt that the game that was played today probably saw the best 
performance through the entire World Cup by the U.S. team.
  So, Mr. Speaker, I just want to say from Friedel to Donovan to 
McBride, and all of the wonderful players on the U.S. soccer team, 
congratulations on a job well done. You represented the United States 
extraordinarily well.

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