USA vs. Panama, 2013 Gold Cup final: Brek Shea fires USMNT to CONCACAF title

While the game was certainly played in the frenetic and physical style Panama sought in the first half, they were unable to take advantage of the times that they frustrated the U.S. and forced turnovers in midfield, with the United States regularly winning the ball right back.

• Daniel Ludueña scores a 70-yard goal

JURGEN KLINSMANN IS TOTALLY A WIZARD Y’ALL!! HE TOTALLY JUST DISAPPARATED!!

Or maybe he just dropped to the ground and I’m totally being a geek and overreacting.

It wasn’t anything especially flashy -- at least on the finishing end -- but since it may very well be the winning goal and allow the United States to lift a trophy, it’s quite exciting.

The USA now leads 1-0 with just over 15 minutes left to play in Chicago.

With Mexico getting dumped out of the Gold Cup by Panama in the semifinal, the crowd at Soldier Field in Chicago could have been very sparse. Chicago has a massive Mexican population and a large number of tickets were sold before the semifinal result. Thankfully, plenty of United States (and probably a few Panamanian) fans were able to get their hands on tickets and the crowd is looking pretty good.

It felt inevitable that some industrious, presumably American, soccer fans would have a little fun with Mexico’s national team photo. After all, with the USA’s biggest rivals failing to reach Sunday’s Gold Cup final in Chicago, it’s only natural that American fans would take a few shots at their competition from south of the border.

Using the magical powers of a simple word processing program and a copy machine, the results of such ingenious are upon us.

The game kicks off at 4 p.m. ET, 3 p.m. local time from Soldier Field in Chicago. You can catch the game on FOX (the broadcast network, not FOX Soccer) or Univision.

• Daniel Ludueña scores a 70-yard goal