Word: cupped
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Three years ago, when the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) began planning this World Cup, it had a modest event in mind, in keeping with its somewhat patronizing view of women's soccer. But Marla Messing, CEO of the Women's World Cup Organizing Committee, who had worked on the highly successful men's 1994 U.S. World Cup, persuaded FIFA to hold the matches in big stadiums in big cities, a strategy that has paid...
...skilled as the guys, but in many respects their game is just as entertaining and often much more watchable. The U.S. team employs a relentless, attacking style that puts opponents in a vise until they crack. It's a far cry from the men's World Cup, where teams often dam the goalmouth with defenders and play dull, negative, just-don't-lose-it soccer. Nor do the ladies act like the prima-donna strikers who turn the slightest foul into a scene from Tosca. And, blessedly, there is little danger of the field being overrun by beer-sotted English...
...soccer world is upside down. The U.S. men finished dead last in the World Cup last year, bickering all the way. In that same year, a record 7.5 million U.S. women and girls registered for soccer teams, just under half of all player registrations. "Part of our mission statement is gender equity, and we've taken it very seriously, investing heavily in the women's game," says Steinbrecher. Cindy Parlow, 21, a slinky striker from Memphis, Tenn., has been in organized soccer since she was four. Like seven of her teammates, she attended the University of North Carolina, a perennial...
...stopping Hamm won't be enough. The U.S. team is deep, many having played together for more than a decade. Defender Joy Fawcett has had two children in her dozen years on the team. During the Cup, Mommy will be off, kicking some butt. The words team chemistry here don't refer to drug tests. "You develop a bond that comes from spending too much time together," laughs Julie Foudy, a.k.a. "Loudy," 28, the motormouth midfielder who is available after practice to provide wicked commentary on her teammates' lives. Foudy sealed the Denmark victory with another left-footed bomb, courtesy...
...March 26, 1999, the day Atkinson's seven-month-old son Jeremy will learn to drink from a cup, and Marc's wife Karen will page him with the news. It is the day Atkinson, 28, will call old friends out of the blue, uncharacteristically skip lunch and return a long-ago borrowed book to a Maryvale Precinct squad mate--a book on street survival, with a section on ambushes. And then he will ask his sergeant if he can be freed from radio calls to keep an eye on a west Phoenix dive that is a magnet for drug...