Interview by Mike Woitalla Kristine Lilly, the world record holder for national team appearances with 352, debuted for the USA at age 16 in 1987 andretired in 2010 at age 39. In Part 2 of our interview with the veteran of five WorldCups and three Olympic Games, Lilly offers advice for young players and reflects […]
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Kristine Lilly: Good coaches create good memories (Q&A Part 1)
Interview by Mike Woitalla Kristine Lilly, the world record holder for national team appearances with 352, debuted for the USA at age 16 in 1987 andretired in 2010 at age 39. We checked in with the veteran of five World Cups and three Olympic Games for her insights on American youth soccer, past and present. […]
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Mia Hamm's advice for girls, parents and coaches
Interview by Mike Woitalla American sports icon Mia Hamm debuted for the U.S. national team at age 15 in 1987. She helped the USA to two World Cup andtwo Olympic titles. The 158 national team goals she scored before retiring in 2004 remain a world record. We asked Hamm to reflect on her early years […]
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New FIFA Women's Player of the Year is crowned
[AWARDS] Homare Sawa, who captained Japan to the 2011 Women’s World Cup title, ended Marta’s five-year reign as the topplayer, beating out the Brazilian forward and American Abby Wambach was a finalist. With almost 29 percent of the total votes of national team coaches, captains and journalists,Sawa outdistanced Marta and Wambach, her former teammate at […]
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Part 2: Becoming Alex Morgan: Rising star reflects on youth game
Interview by Emily Cohen Alex Morgan, at age 22, was the youngest member of the USA’s runner-up squad at the 2011 Women’s World Cup, where shescored in the semifinal and final. Three years earlier, in the midst of her college career at Cal, she led the USA to the 2008 U-20 World Cup title. We […]
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Becoming Alex Morgan: Rising star reflects on youth game (Part 1)
Interview by Emily Cohen Alex Morgan, at age 22, was the youngest member of the USA’s runner-up squad at the 2011 Women’s World Cup, whereshe scored in the semifinal and final. Three years earlier, in the midst of her college career at Cal, she led the USA to the 2008 U-20 World Cup title. We […]
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The Joint was Jumpin'
By Emily Cohen I was literally left speechless upon entering Portland’s Jeld-Wen Field nearly two weeks ago for the U.S. women’s national team friendlyagainst Canada, the second game in the so-called “Celebration Series.” It was still an hour before kickoff and, as Fats Waller famously sang, “The joint is jumpin’!” Living in the Bay Area, […]
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North Korea banned from next Women's World Cup
FIFA threw the book at North Korea after five women’s national team players tested positive for steroids from traditional musk deer gland therapy at the 2011 Women’s World Cup in Germany. North Korea was banned from the 2015 Women’s World Cup, stripped of the $400,000 it won as prize money at the 2011 tournament, and […]
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Wanted: Women coaches and refs
By Sarah Weld I spent much of the last month watching soccer — women’s soccer, that is. The Women’s World Cup, held every four years since it began a mere 20 yearsago, is a young thing compared to its male sibling, the men’s World Cup, which started in 1930. Yet this year’s riveting three-week competition […]
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Women's pro soccer seeks shared vision
Beau Dure examines the state of women’s pro soccer in the wake of the success of the U.S. women’s national team at Germany ’11. WPS has only sixteams, operating with two less than normally required by U.S. Soccer, and the owner of one of the teams, magicJack’s Dan Borislow, has been at odds with theleague […]