For a long time, they stayed on the pitch. They looked lost. Incredulous. The World Cup is over for the French players. And they can hardly believe it.
Around them, the Parc des Princes is emptying. Tears can’t stop dripping on Marion Torrent’s cheeks. She is one of the first back in the dressing room, sat alongside her Montpellier teammate and best friend Sakina Karchaoui, who is crying as well despite not playing a single minute on Friday night as France lost to the United States 2-1 in the quarterfinals.
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Check out a LEGO recreation of how the United States held off France to earn a place in the World Cup semifinals.
ESPN’s Julie Foudy addresses the pressure on hosts France vs. the United States, who have always had their own all-or-nothing attitude.
Kate Markgraf and Sebastian Salazar break down how the United States were able to hold off France and advance to the World Cup semifinals.
PARIS — This city comes alive at night. Its pulse quickens as the museums empty out and the restaurants fill, the people crowding into bistros in the Latin Quarter, or the Marais or up on the hill near Sacre Couer. As evening falls, the 7th Arrondisement becomes the center as the Eiffel Tower begins to glow. It sparkles on the hour and — on most nights — shows the city’s heartbeat.
Friday was different. On this night, the light, the energy, the blood came from the southwestern part of the…
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Megan Rapinoe reaffirms her decision to decline an invitation to the White House and encourages her USWNT teammates to consider doing the same.
Former USWNT defender Kate Markgraf believes France has performed better and have been challenged more than the United States for far in this World Cup.
PARIS — France and the United States will soon be on opposite sides of one of the biggest games in the history of women’s soccer. The two most abundant fan bases in this tournament will turn the Parc des Princes into a seething cauldron of nearly 50,000 voices, a “s—show circus” of epic proportions as Megan Rapinoe giddily and memorably phrased it.
But before the World Cup co-favorites were rivals standing in each other’s way of advancing to the semifinals, each had help from the other to make…
Sam Mewis says the USWNT continue to evolve as the World Cup progresses ahead of their quarterfinal versus hosts France.