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U.S. women's soccer team in transition as it prepares for World Cup
In Pia Sundhage's first meeting as coach of the U.S. women's national soccer team seven years ago, she pulled out a guitar and serenaded the bemused players with Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changin'." When new U.S. women's Coach Jill Ellis held her first team meeting eight months ago, it featured a slide show. "I'm not musically inclined," she said by way of explanation. But if the methods varied, the message was essentially the same, since Ellis' first slide featured a quote from Will Rogers. "Even if you're on the right track," the humorist and philosopher once said, "you'll get run over if you just...
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U.S. women's soccer team in transition as it prepares for World Cup
In Pia Sundhage's first meeting as coach of the U.S. women's national soccer team seven years ago, she pulled out a guitar and serenaded the bemused players with Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changin'."
When new U.S. women's Coach Jill...
Women's World Cup to go forward on artificial turf
A coalition of women's soccer players led by U.S. star Abby Wambach has withdrawn its gender discrimination suit against FIFA and will play this summer's World Cup in Canada on artificial turf.
The men's tournament has always been played on grass and...
Cristiano Ronaldo wins FIFA Ballon d'Or award for third time
Cristiano Ronaldo won the FIFA Ballon d'Or award for 2014 on Monday, earning the title of world's best football player for a third time.
He beat Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer and four-time winner Lionel Messi in a vote of national team captains and...
In 2015, U.S. women face World Cup hurdle, Robbie Keane needed in L.A.
The U.S. women will try to give Abby Wambach, 34, a World Cup title before she retires, the Galaxy will try life without Landon Donovan for the first time in a decade and U.S. men's national team Coach Juergen Klinsmann will try not to continue making...
FIFA allegedly threatened players who supported World Cup lawsuit
In a court filing Monday, attorneys for more than 60 women soccer players charged that federations in Mexico and Costa Rica were asked to punish players unless they removed their names from a lawsuit against FIFA, world soccer’s governing body, and the...
U.S. beats Trinidad and Tobago, 1-0, in Women's World Cup qualifier
Abby Wambach scored in the 54th minute to help the United States beat Trinidad and Tobago, 1-0, on Wednesday night in their opening Women's World Cup qualifying game. Wambach scored on a header off Alex Morgan's cross for her record-extending 171st...
U.S. faces Mexico with Women's World Cup berth on the line
If there's one thing the U.S. women's team shouldn't have to worry about in Friday's World Cup semifinal qualifier against Mexico, it's overconfidence.
Four years ago the Americans met Mexico under identical circumstances in the semifinals of the...
Abby Wambach on shortlist for World Player of the Year
U.S. national team standout Abby Wambach was selected Friday as one of 10 finalists for FIFA's World Player of the Year award, an honor she won in 2012.
Also named to the list were five-time winner Marta of Brazil and Nadine Angerer of Germany, who won...
FIFA ordered to respond to female players' demand for grass fields
A group of top international women's soccer players won a victory in a Canadian court this week when the Human Rights Tribunal in Ontario asked FIFA to respond to their complaints over the planned use of artificial-turf fields for next summer's World...
Top women's soccer players sue over artificial turf plans for World Cup
It's hard not to be amazed by the continuing incompetence of FIFA, world soccer's clueless governing body.
Bribery scandals, opaqueness and general loathsomeness have come to define the organization over the last four decades. Now FIFA has managed to...
U.S. women's soccer team wins CONCACAF championship
Abby Wambach scored four goals and the World Cup-bound United States defeated Costa Rica, 6-0, Sunday night for the team's fifth CONCACAF Women's Championship title.
The U.S. women had already secured a trip to next year's World Cup in Canada with a...
U.S. women, with eye on World Cup berth, open CONCACAF qualifier
It's been three years and three head coaches since the U.S. women's national soccer team lost a heartbreaker to Japan in a World Cup final decided on penalty kicks.
On Wednesday the Americans begin the long climb toward another World Cup when they face...
U.S. names 20-woman roster for World Cup qualifying
A number of familiar names are on the 20-player roster U.S. women's soccer Coach Jill Ellis has called up for this month's CONCACAF World Cup qualifying tournament.
Fourteen of the 20 women named participated in qualifying for the 2012 Olympics while...
Megan Rapinoe makes a good U.S. soccer team look even better
Megan Rapinoe is a team player — which is a good thing to be when you consider the team she plays for.
The U.S. women's soccer squad, which enters World Cup qualifying next month, isn't so much a collection of players as it is a constellation of stars....
U.S. women win in wake of coach's firing
SAN DIEGO — The U.S. women's soccer team has been ranked No. 1 in the world for seven years, hasn't lost a match at home in nearly a decade and has been beaten just twice in its last 48 matches overall.
Not exactly the record of a group in turmoil.
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U.S. women's soccer team's unbeaten streak ends at 43
The U.S. women's soccer team's two-year unbeaten streak ended at 43 games Friday with a 1-0 loss to Sweden and former coach Pia Sundhage at the Algarve Cup in Albufeira, Portugal.
Lotta Schelin beat goalkeeper Hope Solo with a header in the 24th...
After World Cup loss, U.S. fans don't waffle in their pride
Hide your waffle irons, America.
After the U.S. lost, 2-1, in extra time to Belgium in the World Cup Round of 16, the domestic reaction has been more resigned pride than vitriol. Still, the Belgian waffle had already been the target of some American...
As soccer pals and teammates, they've had similar goals
Christen Press and Whitney Engen grew up just 13 months and a few miles apart on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. And they've been virtually inseparable on a soccer field ever since, playing together as kids, against each other in college and now as...
U.S. women's soccer dominates Russia in exhibition
BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — Carli Lloyd and Christen Press each scored twice to help the U.S. women's soccer team beat Russia, 7-0, on Saturday in an exhibition game that extended the Americans' unbeaten streak to 41 games. Abby Wambach entered 14 minutes...
Sydney Leroux, Christie Rampone are a great blend for U.S. soccer
Sydney Leroux was a 6-year-old first-grader when Christie Rampone made her debut with the United States women's soccer national team.
That was 17 years ago and now the two are teammates on the U.S. squad, Leroux an energetic forward and Rampone a wise...
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