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Friday, June 7, 2019

How the United States got a head start on everybody else in women's football

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Soccer has long been adopted by US females, but why? Jason Davis explains how government legislation and a lack of tradition helped the USWNT thrive
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Title IX’s impact on football specifically was colossal. With scholarships now on offer, thousands of players continued playing football into their university years

Germany, Brazil, Japan and others have caught up, and the US hasn’t won a World Cup since that glorious southern California day in 1999

America’s advantage, at least for the first decade of high-level competition, lied with the number of well-coached players who didn't lack competitive environments in which to hone their talents before taking on the world

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