MARSEILLE, France — The U.S. was two minutes away from an early exit in the men’s soccer tournament at the Beijing Olympics when Sacha Kljestan scored on a penalty kick. That did little to change the results and even less to save the Americans, who left China after that final group-stage game.
But it did make Kljestan the answer to an unwelcome trivia question: Who was the last American male soccer player to score a goal in the Olympic Games?
Kljestan was 22 then and midway through his third season in MLS.