ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Croatian striker Petar Musa has more experience scoring goals in the Dallas area than even the biggest stars of this World Cup.<\/p>\n
He now has his first on soccer’s biggest stage.<\/p>\n
The Dallas player became the third from Major League Soccer to score for a European team in the World Cup, getting a tying goal on the final play before the whistle ending the first half of Croatia’s 4-2 loss to England on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe feeling was incredible to score a goal here at home, but I\u2019m not happy because we lost the game,\u201d Musa said. \u201cThere\u2019s not much to celebrate because we lost the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Musa scored his 32nd goal in the Dallas area across all competitions. Playing for Dallas, the 28-year-old is tied with Argentina superstar Lionel Messi of Inter Miami for second in MLS with 12 goals this season. Musa has 46 in his three-year career in the U.S. league.<\/p>\n
With Croatia trailing 2-1 in the waning moments of extra time, Mario Pasalic sent a through ball to Ivan Perisic, who headed it toward Musa. Before the ball could bounce, Musa volleyed it past goalkeeper Jordan Pickford. The halftime whistle blew before play resumed.<\/p>\n
Jude Bellingham scored the go-ahead goal for England two minutes into the second half, and Croatia coach Zlatco Dalic replaced Musa with Igor Matanovic in the 66th minute.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe coach, he\u2019s the boss and he makes the decision,\u201d Musa said. \u201cI think I was already out of gas. I was tired because we ran a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n
Musa was the third Dallas player to appear in the World Cup, joining Louicius Deedson of Haiti this year and Jes\u00fas Ferreira for the United States four years ago.<\/p>\n
The other MLS players to score for European teams were Gareth Bale for Wales and Xherdan Shaqiri for Switzerland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Croatian striker Petar Musa has more experience scoring goals in the Dallas area than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,95966,49711,121765,121766,121438,121439,121441,73993,121767,202,30548,196,942,88711,121763,121764],"class_list":["post-343218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-croatia","tag-england","tag-gareth-bale","tag-igor-matanovic","tag-ivan-perisic","tag-jordan-pickford","tag-jude-bellingham","tag-lionel-messi","tag-mario-pasalic","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-petar-musa","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-product-42059-world-cup-text","tag-world-cup-croatia-petar-musa","tag-xherdan-shaqiri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}