Eloy Room stopped 15 shots against Ecuador on June 20 and earned Curacao their first point in FIFA World Cup history. A 0-0 draw has never felt this loud.
The 37-year-old goalkeeper, who plays his club football for Miami FC in the USL Championship, faced 29 shots from an Ecuador side that simply could not find a way past him. The performance tied or nearly matched Tim Howard’s iconic 16-save display against Belgium at the 2014 World Cup.
Curacao, a Caribbean island nation with a population smaller than most mid-sized American cities, had never earned a single point at a World Cup before this match in Kansas City, Missouri.
The performance, by the numbers
Ecuador peppered his goal with 29 shots across the game. Room turned every single one of them away.
