The cover story was a preview of the two-game series between the U.S. Olympic men’s team and the California Soccer Football Association (Northern California) all-stars.
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Canadian women’s coach Bev Priestman, two aides out after drone scandal
Canadian women’s national team coach Bev Priestman and two assistants suspended by FIFA over a drone scandal at the Paris Olympics will not be returning.
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Robbie Rogers thrives as a Hollywood producer after his historic soccer career
Rogers into his mid-20s was a closeted gay man surviving within the homophobic landscape of male team sports
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Paul Ratcliffe on Stanford’s Olympians, the pro option for teens, and moving to the ACC
Three starters on the USA’s gold medal team played for Coach Paul Ratcliffe at Stanford University
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U.S. viewership for USA-Brazil gold-medal game tops 10 million
Telemundo reported that 608,000 viewers watched the USA-Brazil match.
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The art of Naomi Girma’s golden defending: something coaches can’t teach — but can help nurture
Naomi Girma’s first years of soccer took place in “a place where mistakes were allowed.”
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Women’s gold-medal game averages approximately 9 million viewers on NBC and Peacock
The audience was the most-watched gold-medal women’s soccer game since the 2004 Athens Olympics.
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Monday AM: USA is back on top of the world. Also: Anson Dorrance retires.
Good morning! The Olympics will be back in four years when Los Angeles hosts for the third time. Soccer was not a part of the 1932 Olympics — the only team sport was … men’s field hockey with three entrants — but the stunning success of the 1984 men’s soccer tournament was the inspiration for […]
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Olympics: SA’s U.S. Player Ratings (Average)
Naomi Girma and Trinity Rodman were the top-rated players.
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Hayes ‘repays’ USA by bringing back joy … and Olympic soccer gold
It is a fifth gold for the USA but one that many had doubted they were capable of winning after their early exit from last year’s women’s World Cup.