Lindsey Horan’s tying goal against the Netherlands saved her team at the World Cup. But it came from a dark place she knows well.
Category: Women’s World Cup (Soccer)
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Norway’s Lise Klaveness Is Calling Out FIFA From the Inside
Lise Klaveness is a rarity in soccer: a woman leading a national federation. But in pointing out her sport’s failures, she has made powerful enemies.
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The Morocco Women’s Team Has Already Won
Morocco is the first North African and majority Arab nation to qualify for the Women’s World Cup. It’s hoping to pick up the baton its men’s team carried in Qatar.
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Sophia Smith Has Been Ready for Her World Cup Moment
Smith had two goals and an assist in her debut in the tournament. And she believes, along with her teammates, that there could have been more.
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Overlooked No More: Lily Parr, Dominant British Soccer Player
She persevered at a time when women were effectively banned from the sport, and was the first woman inducted into England’s National Football Hall of Fame.
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Biggest Gap for U.S. World Cup Players: Their Ages
The U.S. team includes past champions, veterans of the equal pay fight and 14 players experiencing their first World Cup. How they come together will shape the future.
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Sam Kerr Is Australia’s New Queen
Sam Kerr is the face of the World Cup. She has the weight of a nation on her shoulders. She does not seem to have noticed.
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Auckland Shooting: 2 Dead in New Zealand as World Cup Is Set to Kick Off
There were also multiple injuries, the police said, and the gunman was among those killed. The shooting was not far from where Norway’s national team is staying for the Women’s World Cup.
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ACL Injuries Are Hurting Women’s Soccer
The World Cup is missing some of the sport’s biggest stars because of a knee injury epidemic. No one can say for sure why it’s happening, or how to fix it.
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Women’s World Cup Contenders
As the Women’s World Cup has expanded, so, too, has the group of nations with the firm belief that they can win it.
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Why Does Every Women’s World Cup City Have Two Names?
A concerted effort to say Indigenous names correctly, and tell the stories behind them, will show up in stadiums in New Zealand and Australia.