ESPN has named Ian Darke as their lead commentator for World Cup 2014 in Brazil, replacing Martin Tyler.

Darke is a famous name in American soccer circles, and he is perhaps best known for calling Landon Donovan’s last-minute goal against Algeria in the 2010 World Cup that kept the United States’ tournament alive.

Oh, it’s incredible! You could not write a script like this!

It seems fitting that ESPN would bring back the man who made arguably the most famous call in American men’s World Cup history to anchor their coverage, and the only bad news in all this is that Darke will replace Martin Tyler as lead commentator. Tyler is one of the few people in the world who could do as good a job as Darke, so while it’s great to have Darke back, it is a little sad not to have Tyler anchoring the coverage.

Tyler was the lead commentator of ESPN’s coverage of the 2010 World Cup, but he and ESPN announced the two parties would be ending their relationship today, thus promoting Darke to lead commentatorr.

You might remember Tyler for his famous call of Sergio Aguero’s extra-time goal that gave Manchester City the Premier League in 2012.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGhYIX_Vs5I

I swear you’ll never see anything like this ever again, so watch it! Drink it in!

Darke will call the opening match of the World Cup for ESPN, every United States game, and the final, among others.