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4 unusual facts about United States Women's National Soccer Team


2012 CONCACAF Women's Pre-Olympic Tournament qualification

There will be a qualification held to determine the three qualifiers from the Caribbean and two from Central America who will join Canada, Mexico and the United States at the final tournament.

Cheryl Bailey

In 2007 Bailey was appointed as the General Manager of the United States women's national soccer team.

Heather Aldama

Heather Marie Aldama (born 1 December 1978, in Redlands, California) is a retired American soccer midfielder who was a member of the United States women's national soccer team.

Samantha Baggett

Samantha Baggett-Bohon (born 7 June 1976, in Daytona Beach, Florida) is a retired American soccer defender who was a member of the United States women's national soccer team.


1936 National Challenge Cup

Both teams eventually made their way to the Western Final, Heidelberg led by the lone scorer for the USA at the 1934 World Cup Aldo Donelli.

Adam Henley

Henley qualifies for Wales (as his mother is Welsh), England (under residency rules) and the United States, as he was born in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Alen Marcina

Marcina has never been capped by the Canadian national team although he missed New Zealand's round 21 match against Perth Glory at North Harbour Stadium due to a call up to a Canadian national team training camp.

Bruce Twamley

Bruce Richardson Twamley (born 23 May 1952 in Victoria, British Columbia) is a former Canadian international footballer.

Cal FC

The team is coached by former U.S. national team player and current Fox Soccer analyst, Eric Wynalda alongside his former co-host of Fox Football Fone-In, Nick Webster.

Carolina–Duke rivalry

UNC was led by future Team USA legends Kristine Lilly and Mia Hamm.

Chatham Township, New Jersey

Dan Canter (born 1961), soccer defender who played three seasons in the North American Soccer League and three in Major Indoor Soccer League, in addition to playing with the United States men's national soccer team.

Claudio Reyna

Reyna married Danielle Egan, then a member of the United States women's national soccer team, in July 1997, one week after attending the FIFA All-Star Game in Hong Kong and two weeks after the U.S. team's World Cup qualifier at El Salvador.

Congressional Country Club

The course has hosted two USGA amateur golf tournaments: the U.S. Junior Amateur of 1949, won by Gay Brewer, and the U.S. Women's Amateur of 1959, won by Barbara McIntire.

Corner kick

Megan Rapinoe of the United States Women's National Soccer Team scored an Olympic goal direct from a corner kick in the semifinal match between the United States and Canada in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Fabio Baldas

He is mostly known for supervising one match in the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the USA, the first-round Group A contest between the United States and Colombia.

Geri Donnelly

She scored both goals in a 2–1 win over the United States on 9 July 1986 at the National Sports Center, Blaine, Minnesota.

Giuseppe Rossi

In 2006, he was invited to a pre-World Cup training camp with the United States national team by then-coach Bruce Arena but declined, stating his desire to play for Italy.

Jack Tinkler

Tinkler played two official A-international matches for the All Whites in 1927, both against the touring Canadians, the first a 2-2 draw on 25 June 1927, the second a 1-2 loss on 2 July.

Joe Corona

He started his career with the Nomads from San Diego, California, following the example of Marcelo Balboa, Frankie Hejduk and Steve Cherundolo, all from the United States men's national soccer team.

Joseph Di Chiara

Not having played any matches for the Canadian men's national youth soccer teams after travelling under the radar for many years, Joseph was called up to the Canadian senior team on September 26, 2011, for Canada's upcoming games in the second round of CONCACAF 2014 World Cup Qualification.

JP Dellacamera

He has also called numerous United States' World Cup qualifiers, including Paul Caligiuri's famed 1989 "Shot Heard Round the World" goal against Trinidad & Tobago.

Katherine Washington

Katherine Washington is a former American women's basketball player, who played on the first two U.S. women's national teams, earning world championships in 1953 and 1957.

Kathy Flores

In 1991 the USA Rugby sanctioned Women's National Team would compile a 7-1 record at the first Women's Rugby World Cup championship with Flores on the pitch as a No. 8.

Kenny Cooper

This ended his hopes of playing in the 2007 Copa América and for the national team.

KIF Örebro DFF

Among the club's stars in 2004 were USA internationals Kristine Lilly, Christie Welsh, and Kate Markgraf; they were coached by Pia Sundhage.

Kyle Beckerman

Beckerman's first appearance for the Senior National Team came January 20, 2007 in a friendly match against Denmark.

Linda Hathorn

Linda Hathorn (born May 23, 1982), née Linda Consolante, is a retired Canadian professional soccer defender, who won the silver medal with the Canadian women's national soccer team at the 2003 Pan American Games.

Marco Rizi

At the time, he was a member of the Canada U-20 men's national soccer team with which he earned 11 caps, including two at the 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship.

Mark McCammon

On 15 June he played for his country in a 8–0 defeat to the United States at The Home Depot Center in Carson, California.

Marvin McCoy

However Marvin's exceptional performances during this season earned him place in the Antigua and Barbuda national team, playing his part in the 2014 World Cup qualifiers where Antigua was eliminated by the United States and teammate Joel Grant's Jamaica.

Matt Joseph

He was also capped twice for Barbados in 2000, both caps at home against Guatamal and the United States.

Matt Phillips

Phillips finally made his Scotland debut in a 5–1 friendly loss to the United States on 26 May 2012 at EverBank Field, Jacksonville, Florida.

Miles Joseph

Miles Joseph (born May 2, 1974 in West Springfield, Massachusetts) is a retired U.S. soccer player who earned three caps with the United States national soccer team.

Monica Walker

In adult competitions, she placed 4th at the U.S. National Championships in 2012 and again in 2013.

Monique Lamoureux-Kolls

She was named to the United States women's national ice hockey team for the 2010 Winter Olympics as was her twin sister Jocelyne, where they captured a silver medal with Team USA.

Nancy Tasman Brower

After playing on the U.S. women's national lacrosse team, Karin Brower Corbett coached at Rutgers University, Villanova University, William & Mary College, and Drew University.

Parkhead F.C.

Peter Dickson went to Albion Rovers F.C. and Andy Auld played five times for the US national team.

Project 2010

Project 2010 was a blueprint U.S. Soccer executives created in 1998 to ensure that the United States men's national team could become a legitimate threat to win the FIFA World Cup by the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Revolution Recap

Revolution Recap is a weekly review of the New England Revolution, Major League Soccer and the U.S. national team on WNRI AM 1380.

Robert Contiguglia

Among his achievements as President of the USSF were successfully hosting the 1999 Women's World Cup, convincing FIFA to relocate the 2003 Women's World Cup to the United States after the original plans to host it in China fell through, and hiring Bruce Arena as coach for the United States national team.

Rudy Getzinger

That year, he scored in his debut, an August 20, 1972 loss to Canada.

Ryan Phelan

Alongside Sports Tonight, Phelan reported for Network Ten on various other sports events including Clipsal 500, the 2003 US Women's Open, the final Melbourne Cup covered by Ten in 2001 and the 2005 City to Surf.

Saudia Roundtree

She competed with USA Basketball as a member of the 1995 Jones Cup Team that won the Bronze in Taipei.

Softball at the 2011 Pan American Games

On October 23, the United States defeated Canada to win its seventh straight gold medal.

The Merit Club

The Merit Club hosted the United States Women's Open in 2000, won by Karrie Webb.

Tony Panhuyzen

Tony Panhuyzen is a retired Canadian association football player who earned 4 caps for the Canadian national side between 1987 and 1988.

Toronto Ukrainians

During this period the team attracted many soccer stars, such as Ostap Steckiw, Walt Zakaluznyj and Myron Bereza who played for the Canada national football team.

University Hall Turf Field

The Turf Field features a blue surface similar to the one used at the Riverbank Arena in London and was used by the United States women's national field hockey team prior to the 2012 Olympics for this reason.

Vicki Goetze

In 1989 she was still only 16 years old when she defeated Brandie Burton to become the third youngest winner in the history of the U.S. Women's Amateur at the Pinehurst Country Club, in Pinehurst, North Carolina.

Women's Baseball World Cup

In the five times it has been held, the tournament has been won twice by United States and most recently three times by Japan in 2008, 2010 and 2012.

Zach Wells

Wells earned his only cap for the U.S. national team on February 19, 2006 in a 4–0 victory over Guatemala at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco, Texas.


see also

B.J. Snow

B.J. Snow is married to former United States women's national soccer team player and two-time Olympic gold medalist Lindsay Tarpley, an alumnus of Portage Central High School.