Episode 1 of Throwback: The 1991 U.S. Women's World Cup Team

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Sports Illustrated

Sports, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

This week's podcast has a special episode: It's Episode 1 of Throwback, SI's new podcast series on the untold stories of legendary sports moments. This season is on the first FIFA women's World Cup in 1991 and the fascinating U.S. team that played in it. It's an origin story on how the USWNT got started in the mid-1980s and how FIFA finally got its act together and began staging a women's world championship. Interviewees include Michelle Akers, Mia Hamm, Julie Foudy, Carin Gabarra, Anson Dorrance, Kristine Lilly, April Heinrichs, Shannon Higgins-Cirovski, Caitlin Murray, Jean Williams, Linda Medalen, Ellen Wille and Sepp Blatter. SUBSCRIBE to Throwback to listen to the next four episodes, which drop every Thursday through June 6. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.0	podcast series called Throwback, which tells the story of the First Women's
0:40.1	World Cup back in 1991 and the US team that played in it. I have had an
0:45.7	absolute blast working on this over the last couple of months. If you enjoy it,
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0:55.1	Thursday until the start of this year the Women's World Cup for the first time,
1:15.3	and the U.S. national team was set to play a giant stadium in New Jersey.
1:19.4	But the historic moment I want to talk about took place before the first whistle,
1:24.3	before the team was in the stadium, before they were even off the bus.
1:28.8	Here's Christine Lily who was about to play in her third World Cup.
1:33.4	And then we started to continue to go.
1:35.0	And the exit we were getting off at was where all the traffic was.
1:37.6	We were like, geez, what is going on?
1:39.3	Why is there so much traffic at our exit?
1:41.6	I know, a traffic jam. Probably not the historic moment you were
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