NOTES

U.S. goalkeeper Briana Scurry was asked if she had any empathy for her Brazilian counterpart, Maravilha, who mishandled a cross in the game’s fifth minute and had the ball to skip out of her hands, setting up Cindy Parlow for an easy, uncontested goal.

“I do,” Scurry said. “There’s a lot of pressure, playing [goalkeeper] in a game like this, and that was only her first or second touch. The ball came right out of her hands.

“That can happen to anybody, believe me. It has happened to me.”

Scurry paused and grinned.

“I’m just glad it happened to her,” she said.

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After the game, Scurry took a jubilant run toward the stands, waved to where her parents were sitting and then threw her gloves into the crowd.

Someone asked Scurry if she made a mistake “throwing her lucky gloves to the crowd.”

“They’re not lucky gloves,” Scurry said. “Just the hands that wear them.”