For Women’s Soccer, An Elusive Goal
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🗓️ 17 June 2019
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
At the Women’s World Cup this year, the U.S. players talk about living in a “bubble” -- thinking of nothing but the game, eschewing any distractions. What looms outside that bubble is their lawsuit against their federation for gender discrimination, and it’s already shading the reactions to their games.
Guest: Nancy Armour, sports columnist for USA TODAY.
Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Ethan Brooks.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there. This episode contains a little bit of salty language, so get those earmuffs ready. |
| 0:10.9 | The U.S. women's national soccer team played their very first game of the World Cup against Thailand. |
| 0:18.6 | Nancy Armour was in the stands watching. She reports for USA Today. |
| 0:23.6 | The first goal, it was Alex Morgan and it just, it was almost just like you took the cap off |
| 0:31.9 | of bottle of soda after it's been, you know, shaken up. Alex Morgan knocked the ball into the goal with her head. |
| 0:38.9 | Alex Morgan, this one will count. |
| 0:41.5 | She started windmilling her arm in celebration, and then she just ran into a giant bear hug |
| 0:47.6 | with practically the whole team. |
| 0:49.6 | And then in the second half, when they scored, I think, four times in about a six-minute |
| 0:53.4 | span, it was just, most of us were just kind of laughing, like, oh my God, this is like starting to border on the absurd. Shot taken and Rose LaVelle made the right decision to nothing U.S. It's loose, and there's one for the U.S. It's 3-0-0-0-U-S. Repeat over the go. |
| 1:11.9 | 9-0-0-0-U-S. |
| 1:13.5 | 10-0-0-U-S. Open net. There's the 11. Just one after another, after another. And they all just looked happy. When you have to feel for Thailand, it's Sam Hughes who actually initiates his play. The Americans, even though this is the blowout that most people expect it. |
| 1:26.9 | The coaches are still working at the conversation. |
| 1:30.0 | The Americans play just a... Dally, even though this is the blowout that most people expect it. The coaches are still working at the conversation. |
| 1:30.1 | The Americans won this game by the biggest margin in World Cup history. |
| 1:35.5 | Some are saying they showed poor sportsmanship by celebrating after every one of their |
| 1:40.9 | 13 goals. |
| 1:42.8 | And Thailand wept. |
| 1:45.5 | American players went over to comfort the Thai team when it was all over, and the Thai |
| 1:49.9 | coach actually thanked the Americans for their sportsmanship. |
| 1:53.7 | But the on-the-field celebrations were still controversial. |
| 1:58.0 | Honestly, if anyone wants to come at our team for not doing the right thing, |
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