Sentences with phrase «u.s. soccer team»

Then on Sunday, July 5th, the U.S. soccer team won the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup against Japan by the score of 5 - 2, which was the highest - scoring final game in the history of the FIFA Women's World Cup.

Josh Wolff starred for the U.S. soccer team at the 2000 Summer Olympics and played in two World Cups.

«I have to begin by congratulating our U.S. soccer team — Team USA — for advancing to the next round of the World Cup... We were in what's called the «Group of Death» and even though we didn't win today, we were in the toughest grouping, and... we got through, so we still got a chance to win the World Cup!

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For a time, he owned the Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer team; he recently increased his stake in Israel - based Mishorim Development, which owns and develops leisure properties across Israel, the U.S. and Canada.

Vigorate — which has revenues in the $ 4 to 8 million range and ranked 255th on the 2013 PROFIT 500 — opened a Chicago sales office a few years ago to make further inroads with professional sports teams in the U.S. And in 2012, it set up a similar sales hub in Barcelona, reckoning, as Grieve explains, that the sprawling European soccer industry would also be receptive to the sort of digital marketing the company provides to North American leagues.

The stadium is «the biggest and most visible foreign investment ever made in professional soccer in the U.S.,» according to the Journal, despite the fact that many MLS teams have struggled to drive attendance and only two are profitable.

Solo, the most dominant goalkeeper in women's soccer history, has won one World Cup title and two Olympic gold medals in a U.S. career that has included 202 national team appearances and 102 clean sheets.

A yawning pay gap led the massively popular U.S. Women's soccer team to file a gender discrimination lawsuit, the pay differential between the WNBA and NBA remains stark, and women lag behind in both collegiate coaching and officiating.

To showcase once again how Heineken ® is pairing their decades of passion for soccer with the momentum the beautiful game has seen in the U.S., Heineken ® has launched the «Soccer is Here» campaign, which debuts a hat trick of renowned players as spokespeople, including International Spanish star and New York City Football Club (NYCFC) captain, David Villa, U.S. Women's National team captain and summer games hero, Carli Lloyd and American soccer legend Landon Donovan.

The future Latino stars of the U.S. World Cup team may now be playing on a pioneering youth soccer club in suburban L.A.

With European stars Roy Wegerle and Thomas Dooley on America's side, the U.S. national soccer team is no longer a pushover

It's the first word most people utter when it comes to Davis High junior midfielder Maya Doms — an Under - 17 U.S. National Team contributor and the top prospect on the Blue Devils soccer squad.

As in, the hours beginning last Thursday night, which was couch - potato nirvana: NBA Finals Game 7 (highest rating since 1998), Team USA's stirring comeback against Slovenia (most TV households for a soccer match in U.S. history) and, for a snack, the U.S. Open and its ocean views.

Today, conditions seem more fertile.Unlike the NASL, the 12th - year, 13 - club MLS has seven teams (and counting) playing in soccer - specific stadiums; four new national TV contracts; a countrywith 42 million Hispanics, many of them soccer lovers; a base of competitivehomegrown players feeding a U.S. team that has reached five straight WorldCups; and a single - entity business model that prevents teams from spendingthemselves into bankruptcy by bidding against each other for free agents.

Before winning their own gold medal, the U.S. women's basketball players watched from the upper reaches of Karaiskaki Stadium as the U.S. women's soccer team played for gold.

# 50 Claudio Reyna SPRINGFIELD Midfielder for U.S. Olympic soccer team in 1992 and» 96; three - time All - America at Virginia.

So for any gay soccer player who has hopes of playing for the U.S. National Team at the World Cup, being open about their sexuality could have real consequences when they set foot in countries with laws that could land them in jail», said Rogers.

Today, in London alone there are 380 soccer fields, and the attendance last season at games played by teams of Great Britain's four major leagues was more than 34 million — more than twice as many as attended major league baseball games in the U.S. this year.

To staff writer Melissa Segura, soccer in the U.S. had always been the sport of the suburban upper crust, with its pricey youth travel teams, shiny Umbros and halftime orange slices cut by mothers who didn't have to work to make ends meet (or by their help).

Though born 95 % deaf, Pride had played on the U.S. men's under - 18 national soccer team and been the point guard for William & Mary before spending eight seasons in the minors.

AFTER THE U.S. women's soccer team wraps up trainingcamp and exhibition games this summer, the march to the World Cup begins.

Out there in the wings still is the huge army of young soccer players, more than eight million strong, according to an A.C. Nielsen survey, that far outnumbers the participants in any other team sport in the U.S.. You'll hear, of course, that these kids will grow up to be lawyers and then buy season tickets to baseball and football games.

Could there have been a better way to seal the U.S. women's soccer team's 2 - 1 victory over Germany in Monday's Olympic semifinals?

They are acutely aware of their popularity — Hamm is by far the most recognizable American soccer player, male or female, according to a recent federation survey — and they have shrewdly leveraged that fame over the years, winning concessions from U.S. Soccer on several issues: the right of each player to choose which brand of shoe to wear; per - game salaries that equal those of the men's team; and clearance to stage a lucrative post-World Cup indoor tour in»99 using their own promoter.

More cousins: Marcia Wallis, an All - America in both soccer and golf at Stanford, Brian Bernard, formerly of the U.S. national rugby team, and Angelo Caloiaro, who plays professional basketball in Turkey.

With a semifinal win over Germany, the U.S. women's soccer team overcame internal turmoil and gave its retiring stars a shot at gold

American soccer fans know all about Christian Pulisic, the 19 - year - old Borussia Dortmund winger who was named 2017 U.S. Soccer Male Player of the Year after having a hand in ten goals in nine matches with the national team last year.

Pulisic moved with his father, Mark, to Germany in the summer of 2014, and this year he has broken through with Dortmund and the U.S. national team to become the best American men's soccer prospect since Landon Donovan.

Are the powers - that - be saying that the development of female soccer players in the U.S. is on the right track and no changes need to be made, even though the majority of the players on last year's Women's World Cup runner - up U. S. Women's National Team (USWMT) played on their high school teams?

Dr. Bert Mandelbaum, the team physician for U.S. Soccer national teams, has been a pioneer in researching ACL injury trends among female athletes and creating injury prevention methods for soccer players.

The World Cup - winning U.S. women's national soccer team was honored at the White House today, where Obama praised the champions.

The pair have rarely appeared together even during moments of celebration such as the U.S. women's national soccer team's World Cup victory parade down the «Canyon of Heroes» in July.

(Cuomo spoke with the press at the head of the ticker tape parade today for the World Cup champion U.S. women's soccer team and had to walk back to his assigned float as the parade got underway, producing this wrong - way traffic moment.)

Governor Andrew Cuomo briefly spoke with the press this morning, just ahead of the ticker tape parade for the U.S. women's national soccer team.

The U.S. women's soccer team that took home the World Cup took home $ 2 million as a team, while the German male team who won the World Cup pocketed $ 35 million in total.

If you haven't started following the 2014 World Cup yet, the time is now: Tonight marks the first match for the U.S. men's national soccer team.

The U.S. Men's National Team may have broken some soccer fans» hearts when they were knocked out of the World Cup on Tuesday, but one thing is certain: No one will ever forget the serious athletic chops of goalie Tim Howard.

Nobody could have guessed that Carli Lloyd would clench that hat trick in this year's World Cup Championship and lead the U.S. women's soccer team to victory.

Despite their pleas, a federal judge ruled the world champion U.S. women's soccer team does not have the right to strike to seek improved conditions and wages before the Summer Olympics, which means that the USWNT, who have had legitimate complaints of pay disparity, discrimination, and poor field conditions, will be headed to Rio instead of protesting these issues.

-- Ali Krieger, 32, soccer player competing in Rio as part of the U.S. Women's National Team

Like most of America, we were thrilled by the U.S. women's soccer team's stunning performance on Sunday.

U.S. women's national soccer player Abby Wambach has retired — and finished her national team career with 184 goals, the record in international play for both women and men.

Women's Affairs The world champion U.S. women's national soccer team asked a federal judge on Thursday to clear the way for it to strike over alleged pay inequities just two months before the start of the Olympic Games.

When President Obama called the U.S. women's soccer team this month to congratulate its players on winning the World Cup, he noted that they had topped their male counterparts in terms of TV viewership — and, «more importantly, inspired a whole new generation of young women» to go out and play.

«I have an 11 - year - old who plays for the U.S. National Academy team and a 13 - year - old who plays for the Pateadores, an L.A. - based soccer club,» she says.

The U.S. mens soccer team wins the concacaf region in the world cup qualifying and in most concacaf tournaments but then they lose in the world cup.

Piotr Nowak was one of the coaches of the 2008 U.S. Olympic soccer team.

I am a professional women's soccer player for the U.S. women's national soccer team and the Seattle Reign.

A soccer enthusiast, Parkland shooting victim Alyssa Alhadeff will be honored at the U.S. women's national team's match versus England next month in Orlando.