Stories By Jeff Kassouf
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2019 Women's World Cup
/ 4 months agoOver and out from the 2019 Women’s World Cup
PARIS – It’s day 37 on the road, and the finish line is here. I’m sat looking at my departure gate...
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2019 Women's World Cup
/ 4 months agoThe legacy of the 2019 Women’s World Cup is about much more than soccer
LYON, France – It’s surreal to be in a stadium hours after a championship match. Raucous fans are gone and the...
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2019 Women's World Cup
/ 4 months agoThe USWNT lives in pressure, and it continues to set them apart
LYON, France – Everything about the scene at the Stade de Lyon was familiar. A sold-out crowd of mostly Americans watching...
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2019 Women's World Cup
/ 5 months agoAnd in this corner: Netherlands, the underdogs
LYON, France – Orange and yellow decorated the Stade de Lyon on Wednesday. Songs and chants poured out between the opposing...
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2019 Women's World Cup
/ 5 months agoFor Christen Press, a World Cup moment has been a long time coming
LYON, France — Christen Press raised both arms to the sky, index fingers extended to reach just a little farther into...
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2019 Women's World Cup
/ 5 months agoAnother win for the Americans
LYON, France – Four days after and a few hundred miles south of that deafening crowd at the Parc des Princes...
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2019 Women's World Cup
/ 5 months ago‘Le Grand Match’ is won, but the U.S. women’s national team is moving on
PARIS – Megan Rapinoe’s first transcendent moment in a World Cup quarterfinal match came in 2011. In the 122nd minute of...
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2019 Women's World Cup
/ 5 months agoMegan Rapinoe makes another statement against France
PARIS – Rapinoe wanted a circus, and when the spotlight came down on her at the Parc des Princes on Friday,...
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2019 Women's World Cup
/ 5 months agoAlex Morgan is not the player you think she is
When Alex Morgan first emerged with the United States women’s national team, she did so largely as a one-dimensional player, capable...
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2019 Women's World Cup
/ 5 months agoJill Ellis faces defining midfield decision against France
REIMS, France – Lindsey Horan was conspicuously absent from the United States’ women’s national team’s starting lineup on Monday. The U.S....
