Then, early in the second half, after Turkey took a 2-1 lead, Berhalter equalized, with a rocket from the top of the penalty area, off a rebound, that is arguably the highlight-reel goal of the World Cup for the U.S. so far.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe ball just popped out, and I knew if I stayed calm and just made a swing motion, that I had a chance,\u201d says Berhalter. \u201cI practice those a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI always say to him, he doesn\u2019t score ugly goals,\u201d Gregg Berhalter tells TIME in a telephone interview after the game, while heading to the airport for a flight back to Chicago, where he coaches the Fire, the city\u2019s MLS team. \u201cHe only scores good goals.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was amazing,\u201d says Folarin Balogun<\/a>, the emerging U.S. striking star who has two goals in the tournament and created an own goal in the team\u2019s 2-0 victory over Australia<\/a> on June 19. \u201cI told him straight after the game, he had a great game. He was making decisive passes, putting in great work, and the goal as well. So I\u2019m very, very happy for him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Then, early in the second half, after Turkey took a 2-1 lead, Berhalter equalized, with a rocket from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,26612,561,82,13009],"class_list":["post-762310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news-desk-edits","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}