Mullinix, Siri
Naeher, Alyssa
Nagasaki, Japan
Nagasato, YŠki
Nashville exhibition game
National Soccer Alliance (NSA)
National Soccer Hall of Fame
National Sports Festival
National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL)
finances
franchises
Gulati and
MLS and
owners and investors
U.S. Soccer and
Nault, Marie-Eve
Newsday
New York City
Chastain in
fans in
marketing in
parade in
Nichols, Rich
Nigerian women’s national team
Nike
endorsement deals
promotion of Women’s World Cup
sponsorship of U.S. Soccer
North Korea
Norway, exhibition game
Norwegian national women’s team
NSA. See National Soccer Alliance
NWSL. See National Women’s Soccer League
Obama, Barack
O’Hara, Kelley
Olimpico score
Olympics, U.S. Olympic Committee
Olympics, women’s soccer event
1996
penalty kicks
push for
qualifying tournaments for
2000
2004
2008
2012
Olympics, women’s soccer event (2016)
Ellis and
media and
Morgan and
Rapinoe and
Solo and
U.S. women’s team roster selection
O’Reilly, Heather Ann
early life
last game and honoring of
Olympics and
playing on field
2007 World Cup
2011 World Cup
Orlando City Pride
Orrison, Ann
Osborne, Leslile
Overbeck, Carla
PA. See Players Association
parades
Parlow Cone, Cindy
Pasadena, California
Paulson, Merritt
Pearce, Christie
Pedersen, Christina
penalty kicks (PKs)
in Olympics
strategy of
Women’s World Cups
Peterson, Anne M.
Philadelphia Inquirer
PKs. See penalty kicks
Players Association (PA)
Plush, Jeff
Popp, Alexandra
popularity
backslide of women’s soccer
of U.S. women’s national soccer team
Portland exhibition game
Portland Thorns
Portland Timbers
Portugal, Algarve Cup in
Powell, Shaun
Press, Christen
Pride
Prinz, Birgit
prize money, FIFA
promotion
by Nike of Women’s World Cup (1999)
by U.S. Soccer of women’s team post World Cup (1999)
by U.S. women’s national team of World Cup (1999)
Pugh, Mallory
Rapinoe, Megan
collective bargaining agreement and
injury on playing on field
on loss
Olympics (2016) and
2011 Women’s World Cup
2012 Olympics
2015 World Cup
2016 Olympics
U.S. Soccer and
Rawlins, Phil
Real Salt Lake
REP Worldwide
Richland, Washington
Rio de Janeiro, 2016 Olympics
media and
O’Reilly and
Rodriguez, Amy
Rose Bowl
Rothenberg, Alan
Roux, Becca
Royals
Ryan, Greg
Ryan, Mike
Sasaki, Norio
Sauer, Russell
Sauerbrunn, Becky
FC Kansas City and
NWSL and
on playing Nigeria
Sundhage and
2015 World Cup
2016 Olympics
U.S. Soccer and
Schelin, Lotta
Scotland, exhibition game
Scurry, Briana
2003 Women’s World Cup
Nike endorsement deal with
1999 Women’s World Cup
Sermanni, Tom
Australian women’s national team and
Leroux and
SheBelieves Cup
Short, Casey
Sinclair, Christine
Sky Blue FC
Slaton, Danielle
Smith, Taylor
social media
against Leroux
Sermanni firing on
#ZikaProof on
Sol
Solo, Hope
Brazilian fans and
controversies about
“cowards” comment and termination of
Gulati and
media and
Solo: A Memoir of Hope
as star and hero
2007 World Cup
2011 Women’s World Cup
2012 Olympics
2015 World Cup
2016 Olympics
U.S. Soccer and
Solo: A Memoir of Hope (Hope)
Spagnuolo, Dee
sponsorships. See also endorsement deals
of men’s World Cup
of U.S. Soccer
of WUSA
Sports Festival, 1985
Sports Illustrated
stadium tunnel
Steinbrecher, Hank
striking
Sundhage, Pia
early coaching jobs
Ellis and
Gulati and
Heinrichs and
Hucles and
Markgraf and
Olympics (2012) and
Sauerbrunn and
Swedish women’s national team and
Women’s World Cup (2011) and
Sun Wen
Swedish women’s national team
Solo and
Sundhage and
2016 Olympics
Tancredi, Melissa
Tannenwald, Jonathan
Tarpley, Lindsay
television audiences
for U.S. Soccer-hosted games
for Women’s World Cup (1999)
for Women’s World Cup (2015)
Thorns (Portland)
Timbers (Portland)
Times Square
time-wasting
Title IX
Today show
training
grass fields for
U.S. women’s national (soccer) team
for Women’s World Cup
Trecker, Jamie
Trump, Donald
Ukraine, exhibition game
Umbro
UNC. See University of North Carolina
uniforms
United Passions
United States (U.S.)
relations with China
women’s challenges in
University of North Carolina (UNC)
U.S. See United States
USA Hockey
USA Today
Usme, Catalina
U.S. men’s national team
finances
U.S. women’s national team and
World Cup prize money for
U.S. National Team Players Association
U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC)
U.S. Soccer Federation (USSF, U.S. Soccer). See also conflicts, with U.S. Soccer; Contiguglia, Robert; Gulati, Sunil; Rothenberg, Alan
artificial turf and
Chastain and
DiCicco and
discrimination complaints by women’s team against
Ellis and
finances
Foudy and
Hamm, Mia, and
Lloyd and
media and
MLS and
Morgan and
NSA and
NWSL and
promotion of women’s national team by
proposed African tour of women’s team by
Rapinoe and
Sauerbrunn and
Sermanni and
Solo and
sponsors of
strikes by women’s team and
television audiences for games hosted by
USOC and
WUSA and
U.S. women’s national hockey team
U.S. women’s national soccer “B” team
U.S. women’s national (soccer) team. See also specific topics
as All-American Soccer Stars
artificial turf and
bus ride to game
in celebratory parades
critics of
culture of
DiCicco and
discrimination complaints against U.S. Soccer by
fans of
female sexuality in sports and
first
as heroes to young girls after World Cup (2015)
indoor victory tour of
as inspiration to other sports teams
Kessler and
losing streak in 2017
men fans of
Nichols and
popularity of
post-2015 World Cup victory tour of
promotion by U.S. Soccer of
Ryan, Greg, and
training
treatment by U.S. Soccer of
uniforms
USOC and
U.S. women’s national hockey team and
victory tours of
World Cup prize money for
world traveling of
U.S. women’s national team players. See also specific players
as celebrities
code names of
guaranteed income of
international women soccer players and
Nike endorsement deals with
pregnancies of
promotion of Women’s World Cup by
as redefining women and athletes
retirements of
as role models
Sermanni and
strikes against U.S. Soccer by
WUSA and
younger players and veterans
Utah Royals
Valcke, Jérõme
Vancouver Whitecaps
Varona, Donna de
Venturini, Tisha
victory tour
Contiguglia and
indoor
post-2015 World Cup
scheduled on on artificial turf
2015 Women’s World Cup
Wagner, Aly
Wahl, Grant
Wall Street Journal
Wambach, Abby
Algarve Cup
injury of
international stats
New York Flash
on team code
2003 Women’s World Cup
2007 Women’s World Cup
2011 Women’s World Cup
2012 Olympics
2015 World Cup and
on World Cup loss
Washington Freedom
as magicJack
Washington Spirit
Western New York Flash
Whalen, Sara
When Nobody Was Watching (Lloyd)
Whisler, Arnim
White, Arlo
Whitehill, Cat
Winston & Strawn
W-League
Women’s Professional Soccer (WPS)
attendance of
finances
franchises of
magicJack and
women’s soccer
popularity backslide of
slow development of
Title IX and
WUSA and
women’s soccer leagues. See also National Women’s Soccer League
women’s sports
Women’s Sports Foundation
Women’s United Soccer Association (WUSA)
Chastain and
demise of
finances
formation as first women’s pro league
Foudy and
franchises
Hamm, Mia and
inaugural match in Washington, D.C.
international women soccer players and
investors in
MacMillan and
Milbrett and
MLS and
sponsorships of
U.S. Soccer and
U.S. women’s national team players and
women’s soccer and
Women’s World Cup. See also specific players
first, in 1991
1995
organizing committee
penalty kicks
promotion by Nike
qualifying tournaments
training for
2003
2007
2011
2014
2019
Women’s World Cup, 1999. See also specific players
attendance at
celebrations after
final game against China
as major cultural event
penalty kicks
playing on field
post-game promotion of women’s team by U.S. Soccer
television audience for
ticket sales
women’s team players promotion for
Women’s World Cup, 2015. See also specific players
artificial turf battle
in Canada
celebrations after
Ellis and
FIFA and
Group D, “Group of Death,”
impact on young girls
Krieger and
Lloyd and
media and
prize money
record-breaking television ratings for
Solo and
victory tour
Wambach and
World Cup prize money
WPS. See Women’s Professional Soccer
WUSA. See Women’s United Soccer Association
Wynalda, Eric
Yunjie, Fan
#ZikaProof
The first-ever U.S. women’s national team in Jesolo, Italy, in August 1985.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE RYAN FAMILY
The 1991 Women’s World Cup–winning team and coach Anson Dorrance with President George H. W. Bush in January 1992 in Washington, D.C.
FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The veterans with the team’s sport psychology consultant, Dr. Colleen Hacker. Players from left to right: Brandi Chastain, Mia Hamm, Kristine Lilly, Julie Foudy, and Joy Fawcett.
COURTESY OF COLLEEN HACKER
Briana Scurry dives during a drill at Tony DiCicco’s SoccerPlus goalkeeper camp in Simsbury, Connecticut.
Michelle Akers carries a bag of balls at training during the 1995 Women’s World Cup in Sweden.
Tony DiCicco with backup goalkeepers Jen Mead, Kim Wyant, and Saskia Webber in the mid-1990s.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE DICICCO FAMILY.
The starting lineup in 1995. Top row, left to right: Tiffeny Milbrett, Joy Fawcett, Julie Foudy, Michelle Akers, Brandi Chastain, Briana Scurry. Bottom row, left to right: Tisha Venturini, Kristine Lilly, Mia Hamm, Carla Overbeck, Shannon MacMillan.
The national team at a game in the mid-1990s. Sitting next to assistant coach Lauren Gregg, first from the right, is head coach Tony DiCicco.
The national team in China in 1991 for the first Women’s World Cup.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE DICICCO FAMILY.
Mia Hamm versus Fan Yunjie of China during the final of the 1999 Women’s World Cup.
FROM ISI PHOTOS
The coaches celebrate at the Rose Bowl after winning the World Cup in 1999.
&
nbsp; PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE DICICCO FAMILY
The players watch as Brandi Chastain steps up for her penalty kick at the 1999 Women’s World Cup. From left to right: Carla Overbeck, Kristine Lilly, Joy Fawcett, Kate Markgraf, Tisha Venturini, Shannon MacMillan, Mia Hamm, Sara Whalen, Julie Foudy.
Brandi Chastain celebrates after scoring the game-winning penalty kick versus China.
PHOTOS FROM ISI PHOTOS.
Mia Hamm with President Bill Clinton, First Lady Hillary Clinton, and their daughter Chelsea.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE DICICCO FAMILY
Kristine Lilly, Carla Overbeck, and Julie Foudy with the 1999 Women’s World Cup trophy.
KRISTINE LILLY
The veterans with coach April Heinrichs in San Jose, California, in August 2003. From left to right: Mia Hamm, Kristine Lilly, Brandi Chastain, April Heinrichs, Julie Foudy, and Joy Fawcett.
The national team after winning gold at the 2004 Olympics in Greece.
FROM ISI PHOTOS
The players in the locker room, circa 2004. From left to right: Christie Pearce Rampone, Tiffeny Milbrett, Cat Whitehill, Aly Wagner, and Tiffany Roberts.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF CAT WHITEHILL
Carli Lloyd during the 2010 Algarve Cup in Olhao, Portugal.
Angela Hucles, Kate Markgraf, and Shannon Boxx at the 2008 gold medal ceremony in Beijing, China.
FROM ISI PHOTOS
Heather O’Reilly and Lindsay Tarpley with their 2004 gold medals on the team bus.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF HEATHER O’REILLY
Sunil Gulati with Carli Lloyd in Zurich, Switzerland, at a friendly scrimmage organized by FIFA featuring legendary players and members of the FIFA Council.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF SUNIL GULATI
Ali Krieger defends against Marta of Brazil during the 2011 Women’s World Cup.
Abby Wambach celebrates a goal in 2011 as Megan Rapinoe chases.
PHOTOS FROM ISI PHOTOS.
During the 2012 Olympic qualifying tournament, the players write “Liebe” on their arms in honor of injured teammate Ali Krieger.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF HEATHER O’REILLY
Alex Morgan races past New Zealand’s Abby Erceg during the 2012 Olympics.
The national team sings “The Star-Spangled Banner” atop the gold medal podium at the 2012 Olympics. From left to right: Carli Lloyd, Sydney Leroux, Lauren Holiday, Alex Morgan, Abby Wambach, Megan Rapinoe, and Rachel Buehler.
FROM ISI PHOTOS
Hope Solo prepares for a friendly match in October 2013.
Alex Morgan signs autographs and takes selfies with fans in 2013 after an open practice in Columbus.
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