9. Paul Caligiuri, USA vs Czechoslovakia
The Czechs made America wear a dress and cry in this fixture, thrashing them 5-1, but the USA’s consolation was the pick of the bunch. Working tirelessly up front as his team is overwhelmed by the Eastern Europeans, Caligiuri dispossesses a defender on the half way line and lays off to John Stollmeyer, who returns an accurate forward ball. Caligiuri evades one tackle, takes the ball around the goalkeeper and pounds it into the net just before a desperate defender can intervene. It was America’s first World Cup finals goal for 40 years.