The United States has produced some of the best female soccer players in the world. Trying to narrow it down to the 25 best is not easy, but we tried it. Our list is listed in alphabetical order.
'More women are getting opportunities to coach at the highest level, but we still have a long way to go,' Akers says.
The World Cup Final is the most monumental football match on the planet in any given year, so it's no surprise some of the greatest performances in the history of the women's tournament occurred in contests between the last two nations standing.
Will any of the players mentioned in this piece remove themselves from the list by the end of the decade?
The U.S. women’s national soccer team became heroes by winning the 1999 World Cup. It was their second title, but the first, in 1991, came in a different era for women’s soccer.
The United States has arguably the finest women’s soccer team of all time. After all, the USWNT has won three World Cups, more than any other team, and has taken home Olympic gold four times.
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