One by one, the stern-faced US players marched their way out of the Royal Bafokeng Stadium. The World Cup was over for them. They will have four elongated years to mull over what may have been, how the most-capable team in the U.S. football history was thrown out from the game that the Americans were sure that they should have scored.

No nerve-racking return this time. The U.S. depended on late meetings a lot.

Vitality on the World Cup perimeter came to a fatiguing and devastating climax against a familiar enemy on Saturday night, when Ghana, fronted by Asamoah Gyan's goal 3 minutes into overtime, reported a 2-1 win, which concluded an exciting, yet pointless game for the United

States in the second round, just when it appeared that the Americans had a comparatively simple passageway to the semifinals.

Goalkeeper, Tim Howard said, "We felt like we had a great opportunity. We just gave ourselves too much of a mountain to climb. We just couldn't come back".

Kevin-Prince, Boateng placed Ghana in front, when he took the ball from Ricardo Clark in the fifth minute and defeated Howard from 16 yards.

It was the third time in four tournaments that the U.S. was knocked out quite early and once more, the Americans rallied.