#47 What is the SheBelieves Cup and how did it come to be?
Soccer 101
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🗓️ 18 February 2021
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With the 2021 SheBelieves soon to kick off, Taylor takes a look at the history of the competition. What came before it, how and why did it come to be, and what's at stake this time round?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to soccer 101. |
| 0:13.0 | My name is Taylor Rockwell, and on this episode, we're going to be taking a deeper look at the She Believes Cup. |
| 0:19.5 | What is it? Why is it important? And how did it come to be? |
| 0:23.0 | For those listening to this on the date of release, which would be Thursday, February 18th, the 2021 She Believes Cup kicks off today. |
| 0:30.6 | But given that She Believes tends to be an annual competition, I'm thinking people will be Googling this question in the future. Let's hope. So here's your |
| 0:37.9 | explanation. The basic idea of the She Believes Cup is that it's an invitational women's soccer |
| 0:42.9 | tournament held in the United States, usually in late February or early March. The inaugural |
| 0:48.2 | tournament was held in 2016 and has continued ever since. The USA's most recent appearance in |
| 0:53.6 | 2020 was their final appearance before the sports world shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 0:59.1 | Past champions are the United States, France, the United States, England, the United States, and at time of recording, TBD. |
| 1:06.7 | TBD, a very good team, lots of potential, but not a lot known about them. |
| 1:10.2 | But why did this tournament suddenly come to be and what came before it? |
| 1:13.9 | The answer doesn't feature much drama or a gripping page-shurning narrative. |
| 1:17.7 | What it does reflect is the tremendous growth of women's soccer in the last decade. |
| 1:22.3 | Because for more than 20 years between 1994 and 2015, the USA competed in the Algarov Cup, a Portugal-based tournament that |
| 1:28.9 | was long held to be one of the most historical and competitive women's international competitions |
| 1:33.3 | in the world. Also, Al-Garov is a very hard word to say. It turns out, I just learned that now. |
| 1:39.7 | The United States struggled early in their All-Garov cup tenure, who still hard to say, but eventually |
| 1:44.2 | won the tournament for the first time in 2000 and then proceeded to win 10 of the next 15 iterations. |
| 1:50.4 | That's not a bad result. This includes the USA's final appearance at the event when they defeated |
| 1:55.3 | France 2-0 in the championship game and then continued their good run of form in their |
| 2:00.3 | victorious 2015 World |
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