“The Women’s World Cup Grows Up With Rapinoe To Wambach”
Emma Carmichael at Deadspin has the best response to the USAs dramatic World Cup victory over Brazil that youll read this week:
Excerpt:
When Brandi Chastain scored the fifth and final penalty kick in the 1999 Womens World Cup to defeat China, I was sitting in front of more big-screen televisions than Id ever seen before at the Bowl-O-Rama restaurant in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and I was almost eleven years old. After it was over, as Chastain ripped off her shirt, I was quite certain that no moment in sports could ever top this one. I felt strongly, along with the rest of Ponytail America, that I would (for I knew that I could) one day play on that team and score the same goal that Chastain had just scored. . . .
This time around, the game felt like a very good soccer game; it was not merely a moment for nostalgia. What the U.S. did yesterday will surely inspire a new wave of young girls, but it is not replicable. There arent many moments in womens sports that are purely unbelievable sports moments, but Abby Wambachs perfect header off of Megan Rapinoes perfect feed in the 122nd minute against Brazil yesterday was one of those moments. It is a play that makes your jaw drop and that you must watch repeatedly and studiously to grasp how it might have happened, and even then you cant quite believe that it still happened that way, because it was perfect and it would have been perfect if it had been Iniesta serving Villa instead.
Look Ma, No Bra: The Women’s World Cup Grows Up With Rapinoe To Wambach—Deadspin
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