Midfielder Bobby Convey second minute goal for the Earthquakes, a diagonal shot from 14 yards, was the fastest goal allowed by the Galaxy this season and just the third allowed in the first half.

Edson Buddle equalized in the 59th minute with a close range header.  Landon Donovan and Todd Dunivant each assisted on the goal.

Brandon McDonald put the Earthquakes ahead 2-1 in the 72nd and an upset loomed until Donovan tapped in just before fulltime.

Galaxy Skipper Landon Donovan scored his third goal of the season and his first at The Home Depot Center in the 90th minute.

LA is now the first MLS team to reach 40 points on the season and are 10 points ahead of Real Salt Lake at the top of the Western Conference.  With a record of 12-2-4 on the season, they currently have the best record in MLS.

LA Galaxy Head Coach Bruce Arena had this to say about the team’s performance, “I don’t like coming away with just a point at home, but given the circumstances and how we had to scrap to get that point at home—I can’t complain.”

Next up for the LA Galaxy: They host the Puerto Rico Islanders on Tuesday, July 27 in the first leg of their CONCACAF Champions League Preliminary Round series at The Home Depot Center. That game kicks off at 7 p.m. PST and can be seen live on Fox Soccer Channel.

LA will be back in MLS action on Sunday, August 1 when they host the Chicago Fire at The Home Depot Center. The game kicks off at 4:30 p.m. PST and can be seen live on Fox Soccer Channel and Fox Sports en Espanol.

Real Salt Lake midfielder Ned Grabavoy had given the lead to the MLS Cup Champions four minutes before with a spectacular volley from outside the box after a corner kick that forward Justin Braun had cleared out at the 66th minute.

The Red-and-White (4-9-3) has now an undefeated streak of three MLS matches and reaches 15 points in the Western Conference. The Red-and-White has earned five of their last nine points in league play.

Next up for Chivas USA – They will face the Columbus Crew next Saturday, July 31, at 7:30 p.m. PT at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. For more information, call 1-877-CHIVAS-1 or visit cdchivasusa.com

“I was on the PATH train with my friends and with all the fans,” the French star forward said. “For me, it was the quickest way to come to the game, and that’s how I came. It was cool.”

Henry then cooly scored in his inaugural match for his new team, getting a goal midway through the first half of a 2-1 exhibition loss to old rival Tottenham on Thursday night.

“It was amazing to see the fans, walking with them to the stadium,” he said. “I would say that the reception was tremendous every time I touched the ball.”

Henry scored after Estonian national team regular Joel Lindpere played the ball through the legs of defender Alan Hutton, familiar to American fans for his confrontation last season with U.S. forward Jozy Altidore.

A former Arsenal star who left Barcelona to sign with Major League Soccer last week, Henry cut in front of Verdan Corluka at the 6-yard box in the 24th minute and put New York ahead when he slotted the cross past goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini.

“He’ll be a massive hit here in New York I’m sure,” Spurs manager Harry Redknapp said. “He’s a world-class player still. He could play on any team in the Premier League in England. He’s still good enough.”

Robbie Keane, tightly marked by Tim Ream, tied the score in the 62nd minute, tapping the ball into an open net after Andros Townsend’s corner kick was fumbled by goalkeeper Greg Sutton, who replaced starter Bouna Coundoul at the start of the second half.

Jeremy Hall then headed a backpass in the 72nd under pressure from Gareth Bale, who intercepted the one-hopper and put it past the dismayed goalkeeper.

A 32-year-old with a French record 51 international goals, Henry is the highest-profile player to join MLS since David Beckham signed with the Los Angeles Galaxy three years ago. A World Cup and European champion with France, and a Champions League winner with Barcelona, he lost his place in Barca’s starting lineup last season and decided to move to New York, where he long wanted to live.

“He was a tough player over there,” Keane said. “I’m sure he’ll be a tough player over here, as well.”

Playing his first match since France was eliminated from the World Cup with a loss to South Africa on June 22, Henry showed the quick pace and scoring instincts that made him a star since he first became a regular with Monaco in the mid-1990s. He played the first half, and had some deft, quick exchanges with Lindpere. He had a freeing backheel pass and a bicycle kick that went wide.

Just as important for the Red Bulls, he helped draw a crowd of 20,312 _ about 5,000 short of a sellout, to Red Bull Arena, the $200 million stadium that opened in March.

MLS spokesman Dan Courtmanche said Adidas is projected to sell 50,000 Henry Red Bulls jerseys this year, second in MLS history behind the slightly more than 300,000 David Beckham Los Angeles Galaxy jerseys sold when he arrived in 2007.

“This is a massive, massive impact for us,” Red Bulls coach Hans Backe said. “But to be realistic, too, one player can’t in a way change the team totally. He needs his teammates around him to feed him with the right killer passes.”

Henry scored 226 goals for Arsenal from 1999-07, topping the Premier League in scoring four times, and said last week he is reluctant to even speak the name of Tottenham, the Gunners’ north London rival.

He’ll have to wait to pair with Juan Pablo Angel, who missed the match because of a sprained ankle.

Ten Spurs were missing following World Cup duty, including forward Peter Crouch and regular goalkeeper Heurelo Gomes. Cudicini returned during the preseason after injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash while en route to training in November.

Red Bulls supporters sang “Chelsea reject!” at him.

“Fantastic,” Redknapp said. “Where did they get that one from?”

Notes: While on loan to Sunderland last April and playing against Hull, Hutton threw the ball at Altidore, who responded with a head butt that earned him a red card and a season-ending suspension.

Cameras will be installed at every Premier League stadium to provide material for analysis by video game publisher Electronic Arts in time for a planned overhaul of the league’s official player ratings system for the 2011-12 season.

FIFA’s lawmaking panel has yet to reconsider the use of goal-line technology since the World Cup, so the cameras cannot be used to aid officials with the sort of controversial decision that involved England at the tournament.

But they will be able to track players’ movements for what EA Sports and the Premier League hopes will be enhanced analysis of the game including shooting speed and distance covered.

The stats may help the sport compete with baseball and football in areas previously resistant to its appeal.

“As someone who lives in the United States and went over there in the 1970s, but also someone who understands American sports very well, Americans need to statistically analyze everything and this is where soccer befuddles them sometimes because it’s too fluid,” EA Sports global president Peter Moore said Thursday. “That U.S. consumer that is used to waking up the next morning and being able to look at every baseball box score.”

The Premier League will continue to provide its existing player index, which placed Frank Lampard top in 2009-10, for next season. The new cameras should be at all 20 clubs for the Aug. 14 kickoff so that EA and the league can spend a full year working on how to improve the index.

“We’re going to be collecting a lot of that information by camera, a lot of new information as well,” Premier League director of sales and marketing Richard Masters said. “The challenge for us is to work out how that information can be used to enhance the performance of the performance index. How do you make it more objective?

“It’s an important part of how we market the league. We need to be providing an enhanced product.”

EA’s deal with the Premier League will see the EA Sport name and logo attached to the player index and team of the week, which are published after each full round of weekend action.

Neither party would disclose the financial details of the arrangement.

“We’re not discussing dollars or pounds or euros but it’s a great deal for us,” Moore said.

Moore, a British-born Liverpool fan, said EA’s involvement will lead to far more accurate ratings.

He said that the data and technology used in the development of 18 editions of EA’s FIFA soccer game and 22 editions of its Madden NFL game allowed it to successfully predict six months ago that Spain would win the World Cup and pick six of the last seven NFL Super Bowl winners.

EA predicts that Chelsea will retain the Premier League title in 2011 by two points from Manchester City. Moore stressed that the prediction is likely to change as player trading continues until the end of the summer transfer window.

“Pure data, pure telemetry, very objective to move the game forward,” Moore said. “In the United States for many years there’s been the technology element of being able to rate performance on an objective basis, rather than the ‘let’s give him 6 out of 10′ mentality that you’ve seen over the years.”

FIFA confirmed this week that goal-line technology will be discussed at October’s International Football Association Board meeting, but only to decide if it is on the agenda for its subsequent meeting in March.

IFAB this week approved the continuation of an experiment using extra officials behind the goals. That could be permanently adopted instead of video technology.

The debate on goal-line technology was rekindled at the World Cup last month when England was denied a goal against Germany because officials failed to see that a shot by Lampard crossed the line after bouncing off the crossbar.

Had the goal been awarded, the score would have been 2-2 after 38 minutes. Instead, Germany went on to win the second-round match 4-1.

“Even baseball now allows video replay _ and baseball’s been played as long as soccer’s been played at a professional level _ for controversial home run calls,” Moore said. “And that’s the equivalent of a goal.

“It is a little part of why we’re starting to think ourselves we need to help bring the game on a par to where we’re seeing other sports around the world.”

The South African Football Association is involved in a dispute with a local businessman who acquired the rights to the name in 1994. SAFA made a reported $10 million profit from the name during the World Cup.

“I want to avoid saying we are very angry about it,” South African Football Association president Kirsten Nematandani said Thursday. “We are worried about it. We are concerned.”

He said the future of the nickname was being discussed “at a national level.”

Nematandani suggested the Bafana Bafana name, which SAFA uses on much of its official literature and is the popular term in South Africa for the national team, would have to be changed despite being “a national asset.”

SAFA began an extended legal battle in 1997 to claim rights over Bafana Bafana, but South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal dismissed in 2002 a SAFA motion that it had rights over Bafana Bafana.

There is no indication the current owners of the brand will sue SAFA for using the term, but the country’s soccer association is unable to market it and make money from it.

The issue has also reached South Africa’s parliament in Cape Town.

On Tuesday, the chairman of the influential parliamentary committee on sport said Bafana should be changed if the copyright issue wasn’t resolved, forcing SAFA to address the problem.

“We brought it up because we felt that it was not doing us any good as an association,” Nematandani said at SAFA’s headquarters next door to the Soccer City stadium _ the venue for the World Cup final.

Speaking at a press conference to outline new South Africa coach Pitso Mosimane’s vision for the future of the national team, Nematandani said the public could be asked to choose a new nickname.

“It clearly has to be done the right way, but we cannot go on in this way. It is not proper, it is not correct,” the SAFA president said. “The name of Bafana Bafana came from the public and we are throwing the ball back to the public.”

Bafana Bafana means “the boys, the boys” in Zulu.

It is thought to have been used in the early 1990s by journalists in Soweto to refer to the national team after it was readmitted into international soccer after apartheid.

It was quickly picked up and is the affectionate name by which South African fans refer to their team.

In an Internet poll, it was voted one of the words of the recent World Cup _ along with vuvuzela.

Bryant will be fully recovered well before training camp opens Sept. 25, the Lakers said in a brief statement. The two-time NBA finals MVP underwent surgery last week.

Bryant’s knee was drained of fluid early in the playoffs, and he played through several additional injuries while leading the Lakers to their second straight title.

The Lakers said last month that Bryant likely would have surgery this summer to clean up his knee. It wasn’t considered urgent, and he made a trip to South Africa for the World Cup before getting it done.

The team hasn’t announced whether Bryant will have surgery on his injured index finger, which was broken late last year and hampered his shot throughout the season.

Center Andrew Bynum also will need surgery on his right knee to repair a partially torn ligament, but Bynum’s surgery was delayed until July 28 due to his doctor’s schedule. Bynum also should be back to full strength before training camp.

Although Bryant is working on rehabilitation for his knee, he played a major role in two signings this month for the Lakers. Veteran guard Derek Fisher and swingman Matt Barnes both cited Bryant’s personal influence as a major reason they signed with Los Angeles to pursue another title.

The Lakers signed veterans Theo Ratliff and Barnes on Thursday, beefing up their bench after winning last season’s title with a top-heavy roster. With free agent point guard Steve Blake also signed this month, the Lakers have 11 players under contract for next season on a roster with strikingly more experience and depth than last season.

General manager Mitch Kupchak said Friday that the Lakers still are in negotiations with guard Shannon Brown, who opted out of his contract to become a free agent. Brown said he wanted to return to the Lakers, and Kupchak still hopes the high-flying guard will be back.

Kupchak also said the Lakers will continue to evaluate second-round draft picks Devin Ebanks and Derrick Caracter during training camp after both performed surprisingly well in summer-league play.

ATLANTA HAWKS_Re-signed G Joe Johnson to a six-year contract. Signed F Josh Powell (L.A. Lakers) to a one-year contract.

BOSTON CELTICS_Re-signed F Paul Pierce to a four-year contract. Re-signed Gs Ray Allen and Nate Robinson to two-year contracts. Re-signed F Marquis Daniels to a one-year contract. Signed C Jermaine O’Neal (Miami) to a two-year contract.

CHARLOTTE BOBCATS_Re-signed F Tyrus Thomas to a five-year contract. Signed G Shaun Livingston (Washington) to a three-year contract.

CHICAGO BULLS_Acquired F Carlos Boozer from Utah in a sign-and-trade deal. Signed G Ronnie Brewer (Memphis) to a three-year contract. Signed G Kyle Korver (Utah) to a three-year contract. Signed G C.J. Watson (Golden State) to a three-year contract. Signed Omer Asik to a two-year contract.

DALLAS MAVERICKS_Re-signed C Dirk Nowitzki to a four-year contract. Re-signed C Brendan Haywood to a six-year contract.

DENVER NUGGETS_Signed F Al Harrington (N.Y. Knicks) to a five-year contract. Signed C Shelden Williams (Boston) to a one-year contract. Re-signed G Anthony Carter to a one-year contract.

GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS_Signed F Dorell Wright (Miami) to a three-year contract. Acquired F David Lee from the New York Knicks in a sign-and-trade.

HOUSTON ROCKETS_Signed C Brad Miller (Chicago) to a three-year contract. Re-signed G Kyle Lowry to a four-year contract. Re-signed F Luis Scola to a five-year contract.

LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS_Signed G Randy Foye (Washington) to a two-year contract. Signed F Ryan Gomes (Portland) to a three-year contract. Re-signed F Craig Smith to a one-year contract.

LOS ANGELES LAKERS_Re-signed G Derek Fisher to a three-year contract. Signed G Steve Blake (L.A. Clippers) to a four-year contract. Signed F Matt Barnes (Orlando) to a two-year contract.

MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES_Re-signed F Rudy Gay to a five-year contract. Signed G Tony Allen (Boston) to a three-year contract.

MIAMI HEAT_Re-signed G Dwyane Wade to a six-year contract. Re-signed F Udonis Haslem to a five-year contract. Re-signed F James Jones to a one-year contract. Re-signed C Joel Anthony to a five-year contract. Re-signed C Jamaal Magloire to a one-year contract. Signed Mike Miller (Washington) to a five-year contract. Signed C Zydrunas Ilgauskas (Cleveland) to a one-year contract. Signed F Juwan Howard (Portland) to a one-year contract. Acquired F LeBron James from Cleveland in a sign-and-trade. Acquired F Chris Bosh from Toronto in a sign-and-trade.

MILWAUKEE BUCKS_Re-signed G John Salmons to a five-year contract. Signed F Drew Gooden (L.A. Clippers) to a five-year contract. Signed G Keyon Dooling (New Jersey) to a two-year contract. Acquired C Jon Brockman from Sacramento in a sign-and-trade.

MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES_Re-signed C Darko Milicic to a four-year contract. Signed G Luke Ridnour (Milwaukee) to a four-year contract.

NEW JERSEY NETS_Signed F Travis Outlaw (L.A. Clippers) to a five-year contract. Signed G Jordan Farmar (L.A. Lakers) to a three-year contract. Signed C Johan Petro (Denver) to a three-year contract. Acquired G Anthony Morrow from Golden State in a sign-and-trade.

NEW ORLEANS HORNETS_Re-signed C Aaron Gray to a two-year contract.

NEW YORK KNICKS_Acquired F Amare Stoudemire from Phoenix in a sign-and-trade deal. Acquired F Anthony Randolph, F Kelenna Azubuike, F Ronny Turiaf and a 2012 second-round draft pick from Golden State. Signed G Raymond Felton (Charlotte) to a two-year contract. Signed C Timofey Mozgov (Russia) to a three-year contract.

OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER_Signed G Royal Ivey (Milwaukee) to a two-year contract.

ORLANDO MAGIC_Signed G Chris Duhon (New York) to a three-year contract. Signed F Quentin Richardson (Miami) to a four-year contract. Re-signed G J.J. Redick to a three-year contract.

PHILADELPHIA 76ERS_Signed C Tony Battie (New Jersey) to a one-year contract.

PHOENIX SUNS_Re-signed F Channing Frye to a five-year contract. Acquired F Hakim Warrick from Chicago in a sign-and-trade.

PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS_Signed G Wesley Matthews (Utah) to a five-year contract.

SACRAMENTO KINGS_Signed F Antoine Wright (Toronto) to a one-year contract.

SAN ANTONIO SPURS_Re-signed F Matt Bonner to a three-year contract.

TORONTO RAPTORS_Re-signed F Amir Johnson to a five-year contract.

WASHINGTON WIZARDS_Signed F Hilton Armstrong (New Orleans) to one-year contract.

Chivas USA’s team at the SUM U-17 Cup is made up primarily of players who have just finished the Development Academy season with either the club’s U-16 or U-18 Teams. Among those players are several standouts from the recently-ended 2009-10 season, including a pair of defenders who were selected to the Development Academy U-16 West Conference Starting XI, in Alexis Flores and Marcial Cazares.

Cazares was also selected to the Starting XI for the entire 77-team league.   In other youth news, Chivas USA U-18 defender Bryan de la Fuente, who is too old to participate at the U-17 Cup, was one of 18 players selected by United States Under-20 National Team head coach Thomas Rongen for the upcoming Milk Cup in Northern Ireland. One of the most popular youth national trips, the Milk Cup is a prestigious tournament that will provide the U.S. with three international games against China on July 26, Denmark on July 28 and an opponent to be determined in a placement match on July 30. De la Fuente is coming off an excellent seasion with the Chivas USA U-18’s, where he was selected to the Development Academy U-18 Starting XI.
Chivas USA travels to face Real Salt Lake this Saturday, July 24, at 7:00 p.m. PT in a match that will be broadcast live on Prime Ticket, KWHY and W Radio. The Red-and-White will then return home to face the Columbus Crew at The Home Depot Center on Saturday, July 31. For more information, or to purchase tickets, please call 1-877-CHIVAS-1 or visit cdchivasusa.com.

The event also helped raise awareness of the blind and demonstrate that they can overcome physical limitations and enjoy sports activities such as soccer.    An added treat for the children was a special appearance by Chivas USA Goalkeeper Zach Thornton and the team’s popular mascot, the ChivaFighter. Both were on hand to support the children and to teach them soccer skills.

World Access for the Blind is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to facilitate the self-directed achievement of blind people. To date, they have worked with over 1,000 students in 15 countries worldwide. World Access for the Blind is known for their No Limits attitude. They do not settle for the minimum requirements of functioning but rather believe that the blind are capable of anything and everything. To learn more about the organization or to make a donation to support the soccer clinic, you can check out their website at worldaccessfortheblind.org or visit their facebook page at facebook.com/worldaccessfortheblind.

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Zizzo recently signed a contract with MLS and was placed into a weighted lottery to determine his team in the league, with Chivas USA having the third-best chance at earning Zizzo’s rights, behind D.C. United and the Kansas City Wizards. Chivas USA won the lottery, held in New York on Wednesday afternoon, and Zizzo, currently in San Diego, is expected to begin training with the team tomorrow.

Zizzo has also played for the United States youth teams, starting with the U.S. U-18 Team before playing with the U-20’s for the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup, where he started all five of the team’s matches as the U.S. advanced to the tournament’s quarterfinals. His one appearance with the full United States National Team came in an Aug. 22, 2007 friendly at Sweden.

Chivas USA will host an MLS match against the Columbus Crew on Saturday, July 31 in what could be Zizzo’s debut for the club. For more information, or to purchase tickets to any Chivas USA match, please call 1-877-CHIVAS-1 or visit cdchivasusa.com.

Stephen Ireland and Emmanuel Adebayor scored quick back-to-back goals for City, which has been training at the Nike corporate headquarters in Beaverton for the past week.

It was the fourth international friendly this season for the Timbers, who will make the leap to Major League Soccer next season.

The game, played at the University of Portland’s Merlo Field, was sold out with all of the 5,018 seats going to Timbers’ season ticket holders.

Manchester City’s travel roster included defender Kolo Toure and midfielder Yaya Toure, brothers who played in the World Cup for the Ivory Coast, as well as French midfielder Patrick Vieira and striker Adebayor of Togo.

The Toure brothers did not play against the Timbers, but Vieira and Adebayor started. Joe Hart was in goal.

Ireland scored in the 43rd minute and Adebayor added a header in the 44th minute to give City the lead. Adam Johnson assisted on both goals, which drained the enthusiasm of the green-and-white clad Timbers Army.

Brazilian striker Jo added a goal in the 68th minute.

“It’s good for my confidence to score goals,” Adebayor said.

“That was really the first length of a game we’ve done,” assistant manager Brian Kidd said. “I thought it was a terrific workout for the boys.”

Earlier this week, Spanish winger David Silva signed a four-year contract with City worth $36.6 million. He was not with the team in Portland.

There were also rumors that Manchester City could be interested in Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder Landon Donovan, although MLS commissioner Don Garber said this week that the league has no intention of accepting transfer offers for the midfielder.

Donovan was the best U.S. player at the World Cup, scoring three goals to become the American career leader with five. He agreed in December to a four-year contract with MLS that pays him a base salary this year of $2.05 million.

Donovan attracted attention in Europe when MLS loaned him to Everton for 10 weeks in January. He scored two goals in 13 matches.

Donovan was open to possibilities when he returned to the Galaxy from the World Cup on July 2.

“Right now, I want to be in America,” he said. “If there’s something serious to look at, then I will. I never say never to anything. But for now, I’m very excited to be home.”

City manager Roberto Mancini was not available to comment on the matter after Saturday’s match.

Next weekend the New York Red Bulls will host Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspur and Sporting Lisbon in the New York Football Challenge at Red Bull Arena in New Jersey.

City also will play Club America at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta on July 28 and Inter Milan in Baltimore on July 31.

Manchester City finished fifth last season, missing out on a place in this season’s Champions League, and will play in the Europa League.

The match was played at Merlo Field because of a conflict at Portland’s home field, PGE Park, which is also home to the Portland Beavers, the Triple-A baseball affiliate of the San Diego Padres.

Portland has played international exhibitions against Costa Rica’s Puntarenas FC, Argentina’s Boca Juniors and Atlas of Mexico this season, going 2-1-0.

Portland coach Gavin Wilkinson said he hoped his players learned from the experience and said the team would go over the film to find ways to improve. The Timbers have a four-game winning streak in their league.

“I’m delighted that we played them,” Wilkinson said. “It’s a tremendous opportunity for the team, the city and the fans.”

Bornstein, of Los Alamitos, Calif., will complete his contract with Chivas USA before moving to the Monterrey, Mexico based team on January 1, 2011.

Jonathan Rey Bornstein joined Chivas USA as the team’s fourth round pick (37th overall) in the 2006 MLS SuperDraft, and earned Rookie of the Year honors in his first season, leading all rookies in scoring with six goals and four assists. An MLS All-Star from 2007-2010, Bornstein has played a total of 112 regular-season games (110 starts) in his MLS career, with nine goals and nine assists.

With the U.S. National Team, the Los Alamitos native scored a goal in his debut match against Denmark on January 20, 2007, and has played a total of 34 games with the squad, scoring twice. Selected to the United States’ roster for the FIFA World Cup in South Africa, Bornstein played in matches against Algeria and Ghana, and was one of the team’s top performers.

Chivas USA will face Pachuca of the Mexican First Division on Wednesday, July 21 at 7:30 p.m. at The Home Depot Center, and the match will feature a pair of United States National Team players in addition to Bornstein, with José Francisco Torres and Herculez Gomez both on Pachuca’s roster. For more information on the match, or to purchase tickets, please call 1-877-CHIVAS-1 or visit cdchivasusa.com

In addition to the many millions of fans watching the matches on TV, over 220,000 people followed FIFA’s official tweets on Twitter, while members of the five million-strong FIFA.com Club swapped 120 million virtual stickers and made over one million comments on the website as they debated the finer points of the tournament.

With its wide variety of content and interactivity, over the course of the tournament’s 31 days FIFA.com attracted over 250 million visits – approximately 150 million unique users, triggering seven billion page views: 410 million of those page views were recorded in a single day. When England and the USA played simultaneously, FIFA.com technicians reported a throughput of 1,000,000 hits per second at the height of the activity.

The level of demand for FIFA’s online content has surpassed FIFA’s expectations. FIFA.com welcomed three times more unique users than in 2006, serving pages to 150 million people over the course of the 2010 FIFA World Cup™. FIFA exceeded forecasts for page impressions by 1.5 billion. The 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ has witnessed a new level of digital engagement from fans across the globe