United States women's national soccer team

The United States women's national soccer team

The USA women's national football game team (USWNT) represents the USA in international women's football game. The team is that the most prosperous in international women's football game, winning 3 Women's World Cup titles (including the primary ever Women's World Cup in 1991), four Olympic women's gold medals (including the primary ever Olympic Women's football game tournament in 1996), eight CONCACAF Gold Cup wins, and ten Algarve Cups.[3] It medaled in every single World Cup and Olympic tournament in women's football game history from 1991 to 2015, before being knocked out in the quarterfinal of the 2016 Summer Olympics. The team is ruled by us football game Federation and competes in CONCACAF (the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football).After being ranked No. 2 on the average from a pair of003 to 2008 within the FIFA Women's World Rankings,[4] the team was ranked No. 1 unendingly from March 2008 to Gregorian calendar month 2014,[5] falling back behind Germany, the only other team to occupy the No. 1 position in the ranking's history. The team dropped to 2nd on March 24, 2017, due to its last-place finish in 2017 she believes Cup, then returned to 1st on June 23, 2017, after victories in friendlies against Russia, Sweden, and Norway.[6] The team was selected as the U.S. Olympic Committee's Team of the Year in 1997 and 1999,[7] and Sports Illustrated chose the entire team as 1999 Sportswomen of the Year for its usual Sportsman of the Year honor.[8] On April 5, 2017, U.S. Women's Soccer and U.S. Soccer reached a deal on a brand new negotiation agreement that might, among alternative things, cause a pay increase.[9]

History

The 1990s

The U.S.A team's initial major ending came at the 1991 World Championship (retroactively named the 1991 Women's World Cup). The U.S. cruised to lopsided victories in the quarterfinals and semifinals, before defeating Norway 2–1 in the final. Michelle Akers was the team's leading scorer with ten goals, including both of the team's goals in the final, and Carin Jennings won the Golden Ball as the tournament's best player.

Julie Foudy, Kristine Lilly, and the rest of the 1999 team started a revolution towards women's team sports in America. Arguably their most influential and memorable victory came in the 1999 World Cup when they defeated China 5–4 in a penalty shoot-out following a 0–0 draw after an extended time.[11] With this win, they emerged onto the world stage and brought significant media attention to women's soccer and athletics. On July 10, 1999, over 90,000 individuals (the largest ever for a women's sporting event and one in every of the biggest attendances within the world for a tournament game final) filled the Rose Bowl to observe USA play China within the Final. After a back and forth game, the score was tied 0–0 at full-time, and remained so after an extra time, leading to a penalty kick shootout. With Briana Scurry's save of China's third kick, the score was 4–4 with only Brandi Chastain left to shoot. She scored and won the sport for the U.S.A. Chastain magnificently born to her knees and whipped off her shirt, celebrating in her sports bra, which later made the cover of Sports Illustrated and the front pages of newspapers around the country and world.[12] This win influenced many ladies to require to play on a football team.[13]

The 2000s

In the 2003 FIFA Women's tourney, the U.S. defeated Noreg 1–0 within the quarterfinals he lost 0–3 to Germany within the semifinals. The team then defeated Canada 3–1 to say third place.[14] Abby Wambach was the team's prime scorer with 3 goals; Joy Fawcett and Claude E. Shannon Boxx created the tournament's all-star team.

At the 2007 FIFA Women's tourney, the U.S. defeated European nation 3–0 within the quarterfinals, on the other hand, suffered its most lopsided loss in team history once it lost to Brazil 0–4 within the semifinals.[15] The U.S. recovered to defeat Noreg to require third place. Abby Wambach was the team's leading scorer with vi goals, and Kristine Lilly was the sole yank named to the tournament's all-star team.

The 2010s

In the match of the 2011 Women's World Cup in the European country, the U.S. defeated Brazil 5–3 on penalty kicks. Abby Wambach's goal within the 122nd minute to tie the sport 2–2 has been voted the best goal in U.S. football game history and also the greatest goal in Women's World Cup history.[16][16][17] The U.S. then beat France 3–1 within the semi, however, lost to Japan 3–1 on penalty kicks within the Final once drawing 1–1 in regulation and 2–2 in overtime. Hope Solo was named the tournament's best goalkeeper and Abby Wambach won the silver ball because of the tournament's runner-up player.

In the 2012 Summer athletic competition, the U.S. won the prize for the fourth time in 5 athletic competition by defeating Japan 2–1 ahead of eighty,203 fans at Wembley Arena, a record for a women's football game at the athletic competition.[18] the US advanced to face Japan for the prize by winning the semi against the North American nation, a 4–3 success at the top of additional time.[19] The 2012 London athletic competition marked the primary time the USWNT won each game on the way to the prize ANd set an Olympic women's team record of sixteen goals scored.[19]

The National Women's association football League started in 2013 and provided competitive games also as opportunities to players on the fringes of the squad.[20][21] The U.S. had a 43-game unconquered streak that spanned 2 years—the streak began with a 4–0 persuade Scandinavian nation within the 2012 Algarve Cup, associate degreed came to a finish when a 1–0 loss against Scandinavian nation within the 2014 Algarve Cup.[22][23]

The USA defeated Japan 5–2 within the final of the 2015 World Cup, changing into the primary team in history to win 3 Women's World Cup titles. within the sixteenth minute, Carli role player achieved the quickest hat-trick from kick-off in World Cup history, and Abby Wambach was greeted with a credit for her last World Cup match.[24] Following their 2015 World Cup win, the team was honored with a ticker tape parade in big apple town, the primary for a women's sports team. Sports Illustrated celebrated them with twenty-five covers of the magazine.[25] President Barack Obama welcome them to the White House, stating, "This team educated all of America's kids that 'playing sort of a girl' means that you are a badass," before occurring to mention, "'playing sort of a girl' means that is the simplest."[26][27]

On Gregorian calendar month sixteen, 2015, however, a 0–1 loss to China in Wambach's last game meant the team's initial home loss since 2004, ending their 104-game home unconquered streak.[28]

In the 2016 Summer Olympiad, the U.S. player against Sverige within the quarterfinal; within the following penalty kick section, Sverige won the sport 4–3. The loss marked the primary time that the USWNT failed to advance to the palm game of the Olympiad, and also the initial time that the USWNT didn't advance to the semi-spherical of a serious tournament.[29]

After the defeat within the 2016 Olympiad, the USWNT underwent a year of experimentation that saw them losing three home games. If not for a comeback win against Brazil, the USWNT was on the brink of losing four home games in one year, an occasional ne'er before seen by the USWNT. 2017 saw the USWNT play twelve games against groups stratified within the top-15 within the world.[30] The USWNT heads into World Cup Qualifying in fall of 2018

Competitive record

World Cup

Year	Result	Matches	Wins	Draws	Losses	GF	GA	Coach
1991	Champion	6	6	0	0	25	5	Anson Dorrance
1995	Third Place	6	4	1	1	15	5	Tony DiCicco
1999	Champion	6	5	1	0	18	3
2003	Third Place	6	5	0	1	15	5	April Heinrichs
2007	Third Place	6	4	1	1	12	7	Greg Ryan
2011	Runner-up	6	3	2	1	13	7	Pia Sundhage
2015	Champion	7	6	1	0	14	3	Jill Ellis
2019	Qualified
Total	3/8	43	33	6	4	112	35

Olympic Games

Year	Result	Matches	Wins	Draws	Losses	GF	GA	Coach
1996	Gold medal	5	4	1	0	9	3	Tony DiCicco
2000	Silver medal	5	3	1	1	9	5	April Heinrichs
2004	Gold medal	6	5	1	0	12	4
2008	Gold medal	6	5	0	1	12	5	Pia Sundhage
2012	Gold medal	6	6	0	0	16	6
2016	5th place	4	2	2	0	6	3	Jill Ellis
2020	TBD-not yet qualified
Total	4/6	33	26	5	2	63	25

CONCACAF Championship and Gold Cup

Year	Result	Matches	Wins	Draws	Losses	GF	GA	Coach
1991	Champion	5	5	0	0	49	0	Anson Dorrance
1993	Champion	3	3	0	0	13	0
1994	Champion	4	4	0	0	16	1	Tony DiCicco
1998	Did not participate1
2000	Champion	5	4	1	0	24	1	April Heinrichs
2002	Champion	5	5	0	0	24	1
2006	Champion	2	2	0	0	4	1	Greg Ryan
2010	Third place	5	4	0	1	22	2	Pia Sundhage
2014	Champion	5	5	0	0	21	0	Jill Ellis
2018	Champion	5	5	0	0	26	0
Total	9/10	39	37	1	1	199	6

Algarve Cup

Year	Result	Matches	Wins	Draws	Losses	GF	GA	Coach
1994	Runners-Up	3	2	0	1	6	1	Tony DiCicco
1995	4th Place	4	2	1	1	8	5
1996	did not enter
1997
1998	Third Place	4	3	0	1	10	6	Tony DiCicco
1999	Runners-Up	4	2	1	1	8	4
2000	Champions	4	4	0	0	11	1	April Heinrichs
2001	6th Place	4	1	0	3	5	9
2002	5th Place	4	2	1	1	8	6
2003	Champions	4	2	2	0	5	2
2004	Champions	4	3	0	1	11	5
2005	Champions	4	4	0	0	9	0	Greg Ryan
2006	Runners-Up	4	2	2	0	9	1
2007	Champions	4	4	0	0	8	3
2008	Champions	4	4	0	0	12	1	Pia Sundhage
2009	Runners-Up	4	3	1	0	5	1
2010	Champions	4	4	0	0	9	3
2011	Champions	4	4	0	0	12	3
2012	Third Place	4	3	0	1	11	2
2013	Champions	4	3	1	0	11	1	Tom Sermanni
2014	7th Place	4	1	1	2	7	7
2015	Champions	4	3	1	0	7	1	Jill Ellis
Total[49]	20/22	79	56	11	12	172	62

Head coaching history

Name	Years	Matches	Won	Tied	Lost	Win %	Pts÷M	World Cup	Olympics
Mike Ryan	1985	4	0	1	3	.125	0.25
Anson Dorrance	1986–1994	93	66	5	22	.737	2.18
Tony DiCicco	1994–1999	119	103	8	8	.899	2.66
Lauren Gregg	1997, 2000	3	2	1	0	.833	2.33
April Heinrichs	2000–2004	124	87	20	17	.782	2.27
Greg Ryan	2005–2007	55	45	9	1	.900	2.62
Pia Sundhage	2007–2012	107	91	10	6	.897	2.64
Tom Sermanni	2013–2014	23	17	4	2	.826	2.39
Jill Ellis	2012, 2014–present	88	70	14	5	.883	2.5		5th
Totals[60]		637	501	74	65	.838	2.45

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