To be completely honest with you, I'm not a big fan of women's sports, soccer included. But as I was looking through pictures of a sporting even for class I came across one picture that is one of the most important, to me, in American international sports. The picture of Brandi Chastain scoring the winning goal in a shoot out of the World Cup in 1999 came up. Here's the picture on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
It was an amazing day for women's sports and soccer. It showed the world that soccer was growing in America. America is like the laughing stock of the world when it comes to soccer. From experience, we are seen as the big, tough, dumb "football" players. But this showed everyone we are finally competitive in soccer, well, the women anyway.
Last week the men's Under 23 soccer team fell out of the Olympics with a game ending in a tie. Yes, it hurt, but at the same time, its not THAT big of a deal. The real competition comes in the World Cup. That is where you want to win. That is where your nation earns its right to be called number 1 in the world.
