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What comes next for the U.S. women's soccer team? That's the question I'm hearing from several precincts after the dramatic end to the Women's World Cup on Sunday. The short answer is this: the 2012 Olympics come next. Women's soccer has a strange schedule, since its two main events (the World Cup and Olympics) take place in consecutive years, followed by two years in which women's soccer largely drops off the radar.
Hope Solo, goalkeeper for the U.S. Women's soccer team, previews Sunday's final game for the World Cup title.
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Japan's victory in the Women's World Cup gives a disaster-weary nation a boost. CNN's Kyung Lah reports.
From the White House to baseball press boxes to screens large and small around the globe, millions followed Sunday's Women's World Cup final between Japan and the United States.
FRANKFURT, Germany -- Abby Wambach's sore Achilles? So bothersome that it keeps her from training full-speed. Hope Solo's surgically-repaired shoulder? So painful that it requires injections.
DRESDEN, Germany -- The Brazilian journalists came running toward Hope Solo here on Saturday morning. As soon as the U.S. goalkeeper had finished an interview with me in the lobby of the team hotel, a top Brazilian TV network asked Solo if she would "send a kiss" on video to a male sports anchor back home who has become infatuated with her during the Women's World Cup.
For five months the future of the club formerly known as the Washington Freedom has been one big question mark. New owner Dan Borislow has changed the name of the club to magicJack's Washington Freedom, promoting his Internet telephone company, Magic Jack, a la Red Bull New York. The Freedom will play the majority of its home games at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Fla.
Social media is at the center of Women's Professional Soccer's marketing strategy, which seeks to take advantage of almost 250,000 Twitter followers with innovative ideas such as "tweet on the Twenties" during national broadcasts. But last week, Twitter was at the center of a controversy when Atlanta Beat goalkeeper Hope Solo accused Boston Breakers fans of racism after her team's 2-0 loss at Harvard Stadium.
This was going to be the decade of deliverance for women athletes. Instead, the "aughts" have been naughts in many ways.
Spain's 1-0 win over Germany in the Euro 2008 final in June gave the Spaniards their first European championship since 1964 (and second major trophy in their country's history).
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The U.S. women's soccer team defends their Olympic title. Larry Smith wraps up Thursday's competition.
BEIJING -- Five thoughts after the U.S.'s gold-medal-winning 1-0 triumph over Brazil in women's soccer:
BEIJING -- If the U.S. women's soccer team can upset Brazil in Thursday's gold-medal game (USA, 9 a.m. ET), would it be the greatest on-field accomplishment in the history of the storied U.S. program?
Lost in the sturm und drang over the Hope Solo affair at last year's Women's World Cup was a painful truth: The U.S. was playing ugly soccer.
"If you truly expect to realize your dreams, abandon the need for blanket approval. If conforming to everyone's expectations is the number one goal, you have sacrificed your uniqueness, and therefore your excellence." -- Hope Solo's MySpace page
SHANGHAI, China -- A few final thoughts from the World Cup:
Germany's female national soccer team wins the World Cup in China. CNN's Frederik Pleitgen reports
Got a text from my buddy J.C. right after the best women's soccer player I've ever seen (Brazil's Marta) scored her breathtaking, Maradona-at-the-height-of-his-powers goal to sink the U.S. 4-0 in Thursday's Women's World Cup semifinals.
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