Kate Markgraf says Megan Rapinoe handled the pressure of the 2019 World Cup beautifully, but does the Golden Boot winner crack her top five U.S. players of all time?
She stood alone, the only woman in history to start in three consecutive Women’s World Cup finals. With the score tied 0-0 and her teammates standing united at her back — as they have been throughout this tournament — Megan Rapinoe finished the job.
In the 61st minute of what had become another physically and emotionally grueling test for the Americans, Rapinoe sent a penalty kick past Netherlands goalkeeper Sari Van Veenendaahl and opened the scoring for the U.S. against the reigning European…
LYON, France — She stood alone, the only woman in history to start in three consecutive Women’s World Cup finals. With the score tied 0-0 and her teammates standing united at her back — as they have been throughout this tournament — Megan Rapinoe finished the job.
In the 61st minute of what had become another physically and emotionally grueling test for the Americans, Rapinoe sent a penalty kick past Netherlands goalkeeper Sari Van Veenendaal and opened the scoring for the U.S. against the…
Julie Foudy and Kate Markgraf discuss how USWNT coach Jill Ellis’ decision to start the injured Megan Rapinoe and Rose Lavelle paid off in the World Cup final.
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LYON, France — The rest of the world will have its turn. But not here. Not yet.
In a Women’s World Cup marked by European success, the United States is the last team standing. Slow at the start for the first time, the U.S. women came to life in the second half to beat the Netherlands 2-0 on Sunday on second-half goals from Megan Rapinoe and Rose Lavelle.
Rapinoe won the Golden Boot as the tournament’s top scorer and the Golden Ball as its top player. Alex Morgan won the Silver Boot.
The…
LYON, France — The rest of the world will have its turn. But not here. Not yet.
In a Women’s World Cup marked by European success, the United States is the last team standing. Slow at the start for the first time, the U.S. women came to life in the second half to beat the Netherlands 2-0 on Sunday on second-half goals from Megan Rapinoe, from the spot, and Rose Lavelle.
The fourth title overall for the United States also marks the first time it won back-to-back trophies.
Megan Rapinoe makes her…
Kate Markgraf explains why Rose Lavelle is vital to the USWNT’s chances of winning another World Cup. LYON, France — Two of the biggest stars in the Women’s World Cup will be on the field from the start in Sunday’s final, with U.S. captain Megan Rapinoe and Dutch standout Lieke Martens making it back from injury concerns earlier in the week.
Rapinoe becomes the only American player to start each of the past three World Cup finals.
In the running for both the Golden Ball, awarded to the World Cup’s best player, and the Golden Boot, awarded to its top scorer, Rapinoe missed a semifinal win against…
LYON, France — It was less than a decade ago that some members of the French women’s national team posed nude for a German publication, in what was essentially a protest on the eve of a Women’s World Cup. What would it take, the captions asked, to get fans back home to watch them play a sport that is otherwise a national obsession?
When France and the United States played an epic World Cup quarterfinal in front of more than 45,000 in Paris, 51 percent of the televisions in use in the host country…
Check out a LEGO recreation of how the United States held off the Netherlands to lift their fourth Women’s World Cup trophy.