At the age of 22, Racheal Nachula was representing Zambia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the women’s 400 meters after winning bronze at the African Championships. She did her country proud in Beijing, qualifying for the semifinal round after running a hugely impressive 50.62.
Three Olympics and 13 years later, now age 35, Nachula is back, but in an entirely different discipline — soccer.
The U.S. women's soccer team is looking for payback when it kicks off its Olympic campaign with what promises to be a tough challenge against Sweden on Wednesday, with memories still fresh of their quarterfinal defeat in the Rio Games five years ago.
Whether you're Team No Sleep or setting ALL the alarms, don't miss out on the action tomorrow from Tokyo!
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Released on June 24 on HBO Max, “LFG” is a documentary following members of the U.S. women’s national team in their fight for equal pay from the U.S. Soccer Federation. Based on the tweets from U.S. Soccer this week, I need to get an HBO Max subscription ASAP to see what has the USSF in such a tizzy.
LFG is the USWNT’s adopted slogan, an acronym for “Let’s Fucking Go!” The film, which debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in June, appears to be “Let’s fucking go after USSF,” if a recent Twitter thread is anything to go by.
Jessica McDonald led North Carolina to a 2-1 win over OL Reign, but Jessica Fishlock provided the moment of the week with a magical goal for a late consolation on Saturday. The Jess Fishlock lob was in my opinion the best goal of the day, even with Euro 2020 going on.
Soccer coaches are faced with countless unenviable problems every day: How to go about training, how to set the team up for matches, how to meld personalities into a single unit. But one problem every coach would love to have is what Vlatko Andonovski is facing ahead of this summer’s Olympics: How to cut some of the best players in the world.
Ni “Rápido y Furioso”, de la 1 a la 9, tuvo tanta emoción como los minutos de descuento en la final de ida del Guard1anes 2021 de la Liga MX Femenil. El duelo entre Chivas y Tigres contó con chances en ambas metas, discreto cometido arbitral y unos cinco minutos de descuento que incluyeron un penal desperdiciado y el gol del triunfo felino -con dos tiros de chilena incluidos- en el minuto 95.
Olivia Moultrie is a 15-year-old soccer phenom who has been training with the Portland Thorns since 2019 after Nike signed her to a nine-year endorsement deal. Moultrie has been denied from signing with a team due to the National Women’s Soccer League’s age rules, but that could soon change.
FC Barcelona Femení continued its monstrous season with a casual 8-0 victory against Athletic Club on Wednesday. This was the sixth time this season that Barcelona scored seven or more goals in a single game.
This Barcelona team is putting up statistics unheard of in the soccer sphere. After 27 league games, the Catalan side has won all 27, scored 136 goals and conceded five. Those are like video game numbers put up by an expert gamer who put the difficulty setting on amateur.
The Covid-19 pandemic had many sporting casualties in 2020. While nothing compares to the immense (and ongoing) loss of life, U.S. soccer fans were denied the opportunity to pay NFL-level prices to watch preseason friendlies between indifferent European clubs in the International Champions Cup. Similarly, the less-promoted but far-more-interesting Women’s International Champions Cup was canceled in 2020.
Queda poco para conocer a las reinas del Guard1anes 2021 de la Liga MX Femenil. De hecho, ya sabemos quienes son las finalistas. En una esquina tenemos a Chivas y en la otra a Tigres, equipo que busca obtener el bicampeonato.
Chivas, en su camino a la final, despachó a Toluca con un marcador global de 4-0 en cuartos y sufrió un poco más en la ronda de las cuatro mejores ante Atlas, su némesis tapatía.