The national team the inside story of the women who changed soccer
"The U.S. Women's National Soccer Team has won three World Cups and four Olympic gold medals, set record TV ratings, drawn massive crowds, earned huge revenues for FIFA and U.S. Soccer, and helped to redefine the place of women in sports. But despite their dominance, and their rosters of s...
| Main Author: | Murray, Caitlin (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Abrams Press,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- "We're not very USA-ish"
- "I just want to play soccer"
- "Screw you, we'll show you differently"
- "From darkness into the light"
- "Babe city, ladies and gentlemen"
- "Oh s***, these women are for real"
- "Is that the starting team? am I not on it?"
- "We kind of bled to death"
- "It was their team"
- "Why do we have to deal with this discrimination?"
- "If there isn't a goalkeeper controversy, why make one?"
- "Woah, can we do this without her?"
- "You wouldn't be on the field if it was up to me"
- "The Americans? they just go for it"
- "Okay, this is our payback"
- "Let's give this league a shot, let's go for it"
- "I cannot comment further at this time"
- "I've dreamed of scoring a shot like that"
- "It is our job to keep on fighting"
- "We played a bunch of cowards"
- "The power of collective bargaining"
- "We had to turn the lens on ourselves."