by admin | Jul 26, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Alyssa Thompson was 10 years old when she and her younger sister Gisele stuck photos of themselves onto a poster of the U.S. women’s national team for the 2015 World Cup, imagining themselves on the squad. By the time they huddled at their aunt’s house to watch the...
by admin | Jul 26, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Alexia Putellas started her first competitive game in 431 days as Spain hammered Zambia 5-0 at Eden Park to book their place in the round of 16, along with Japan who also won their opening two games in Group C. Putellas, the back-to-back Ballon d’Or winner, tore...
by admin | Jul 24, 2023 | Representation, SEW
The curious email slid unannounced into Seble Demissie’s inbox on her final weekend of innocence. She opened it on a Sunday morning in August 2014, with her soccer world still small and her daughter, Naomi Girma, still asleep. “Dear Athlete,” it began....
by admin | Jul 24, 2023 | Representation, SEW
The World Cup is the perfect stage for an introduction. Like Brandi Chastain in 1999, Carli Lloyd in 2015 or Megan Rapinoe in 2019, a soccer player here has the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to catapult her career with the right performance. Rose Lavelle knows that....
by admin | Jul 24, 2023 | Representation, SEW
The U.S. women’s national team got the result it expected, though perhaps not the margin of victory it anticipated going in, defeating Vietnam 3-0 in the teams’ 2023 FIFA World Cup opener. Sophia Smith scored two first-half goals and Lindsey Horan added a...
by admin | Jul 21, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Spain showed precisely why it’s such a popular pick to win the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup in its group stage opener against Costa Rica, beating Las Ticas 3-0 at Wellington Regional Stadium. Canada, on the other hand, did nothing to prove its many skeptics...
by admin | Jul 21, 2023 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
You can’t talk about the United States Women’s National Team without mentioning Mia Hamm. The legacy of the former standout star for the red, white and blue is well known: She is a two-time Olympic gold medalist and two-time Women’s World Cup...
by admin | Jul 20, 2023 | Representation, SEW
In a tournament that promised to deliver surprises, it did just that in the very first match as New Zealand, after 15 failed attempts, won a World Cup game. It was a moment they’d been dreaming of ever since they first stepped onto the pitch against Denmark in...
by admin | Jul 19, 2023 | Representation, SEW
The World Cup is (almost) here, which means it’s time to get familiar with the U.S. roster, the other teams that will contend for the title, how to watch and … the weather? Yes, it’s true that all of these things are important as the American women...
by admin | Jul 18, 2023 | Representation, SEW
The process of assembling the U.S. women’s national soccer team roster for the World Cup was both easy and hard. Coach Vlatko Andonovski was blessed with a player pool deep enough to field two competitive lineups this summer. In that sense, he couldn’t go wrong. Read...
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