Monday, August 18, 2008  Olympic Women's Soccer Semifinal -
Brazil Levels Germany 4-1: Formiga Ends Angerer's Unprecedented
Record in the Goal  Wow. All I can say is Wow. (Click here for
FIFA match summary.) As Canarihnas just played the game of their
lives against Germany (Check out Amanda Vandervort's article on
them here). After a rocky start, in which Germany looked on path
to beat Brazil at her own game in a repeat of the 2007 World Cup
Final, Brazil came back from one down with a brilliant strike
from Formiga (pictured here) and then followed up with a string
of devastating attacks on goal - playing circles around the 2007
World Cup Champions to end the match with a decisive, and very
entertaining victory (4-1).  Brazil's defense looked awful at
the game's start, and I'm going to say one of the plays of the
match has to be a save from Tania early on - at about 2 minutes,
she dug deep and literally extended herself farther than one
would have though possible to get rid of a very dangerous cross
headed ri