US women's soccer team searching for their own legacy
It has been 12 years since the U.S. women's soccer team had its iconic moment:
Penalty kick converted. Sports bra revealed. World championship claimed.
That was a different era, a moment in time perched on the edge of the last millennium. Anything seemed possible for the American team. The future was unlimited.
This month, the top-ranked U.S. team will try to win its first World Cup since that moment at the Rose Bowl in 1999.
Twelve years later, the U.S. team is still operating in the shadows of its past legacy and trying to find a way to forge its own identity.
"I've said the U.S. will win, but it won't be easy," said Brandi Chastain, who took that historic penalty kick to win the World Cup and will be working as a broadcaster in Germany.
The Americans like to point out that the rest of the world has been catching up. But, at times, it seems their own team has been running in place, challenged to move past the golden age that was dominated by Mia Hamm, Julie Foudy, Chastain and others. Since the core group retired, the team has dealt with a leadership void. The squad is on its third head coach since 1999. And the team appears vulnerable in a way it never did in the late 1990s.
The biggest hurdles in front of the top-ranked U.S. team as it enters the World Cup are Germany, Brazil. And itself.
• Can Germany three-peat?
The host country has all the momentum. The Germans have won two consecutive World Cups and have been playing good soccer in the lead up to the World Cup. In 2007, in China, the Germans didn't concede a single goal.
Captain Birgit Prinz, the alltime World Cup scoring leader, headlines a loaded roster. Prinz is expected to lead her team despite suffering an ankle injury earlier this month.
The host country is enthusiastic about the event and ticket sales are reportedly going well.
"The psychology of being at home is interesting," Chastain said. "Will that be too much pressure?"
It wasn't for the U.S. team in 1999. The Germans aren't showing any signs of trepidation.
• Can Marta become a champion?
The greatest player in the world, a five-time winner of the Player of the Year award, Marta has said, "Now the time has come to win a title."
Brazil has been the runner-up in the past three major championships: the 2004 Olympics, the 2007 World Cup and the 2008 Olympics. Marta and her offensive partner Cristiane are the most lethal duo in the world, but haven't broken through for a title.
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Ah yes, recreational sex. Our world’s greatest problem. What if it should lead to a sexual Olympics?! Heavens.
Actually much of the concern revolves around teen pregnancy. Yes, teens get pregnant, and many choose to make a family, in various forms, and face intense stigma, with access to very few resources.
If you don’t already know about the microagressions tumblr check it out. Sometimes I just go there to have a cry/laugh.
-it did lead to more use of MAP.So fuck the Church, and hard, if they can’t lrn2internet. With the way UK Govt. is waging war on the poor, girls and women (and anyone else who can get pregnant) need every chance they can get to make sure they’re not pregnant before they want to be.
And if it did become a sport? (and by that I mean something done purely for fun and the cardio benefits) IDGAF. As long as it’s between consenting over-16 year olds, as long as it’s as safe as it can be, then great. The govt. has abolished the scheme that was creating free sport schemes for underprivileged areas, and at least sex (and contraception) is free.
The Church should be far more concerned with what’s hidden under their robes, than what’s under the skirts of girls and women.
*Anna Glasier , head of Family Planning Scotland – “Past studies, including one involving 18,000 Lothian women, have shown that getting emergency contraception to keep at home increased its use by two or three times – but with no measurable effect on abortion rates.
Prof Glasier said: “The problem is many women do not realise they have put themselves at risk of pregnancy.
They may assume that it just won’t happen to them, so even if they have the morning-after pill at home they don’t use it.
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