"Wasn't it great," the US team manager, Mat Halpin, said.
And the team captain, Mats Sundin, could only shrug.
The donating mothers are up and walking and will be discharged from the hospital within a few days," team leader Mats Brannstrom said in a statement.
With Robin Soderling, Sweden's top singles player, out with an injury, the team captain Mats Wilander has Thomas Johansson, the doubles team of Jonas Bjorkman and Simon Aspelin and one large wild card in the huge-serving Joachim Johansson, who has missed most of the last two seasons with injuries.
A 48-point season followed in 2001 02 and he assumed leadership of the Maple Leafs during the 2002 Stanley Cup Playoffs after team captain Mats Sundin suffered a season-ending injury.
A terrific Shaun Maloney free-kick, from near the corner of the German penalty area, worried Manuel Neuer to the extent that he could only parry the ball straight against the legs of his team-mate Mats Hummels.
"He's simply a great footballer," said team-mate Mats Hummels.
Borussia Dortmund midfielder Ilkay Gundogan, 24, expects to move to United this summer with Dortmund team-mate Mats Hummels, 26, also attracting interest from Reds boss Louis van Gaal.
Yesterday, Eli Manning was asked to pick this team off the mat, and he did.
At a SuperStars training session recently in Baisley Pond Park, youngsters on a neighboring basketball court looked on askance as the team carried the mat from a metal locker and used mallets to secure it to the damp earth.
