The Women’s World Cup’s latest aim celebration is delayed gratification.
The newest participant to hitch the membership was Stefanie van der Gragt of the Netherlands, who scored her group’s solely aim in a 1-0 victory in opposition to Portugal on Sunday, had it dominated out instantly for offside and then, three lengthy minutes later, had it reinstated after a video assessment.
“It’s always difficult to wait,” van der Gragt mentioned. “But it doesn’t matter: We win, and that’s what is important.”
Van der Gragt’s transient emotional roller-coaster has been echoed in different video games on this event. Sophia Smith of the United States skilled the similar wait a day earlier, when her second aim in opposition to Vietnam was initially disallowed and then returned to her after the officers took a re-examination.
Many occasions, the wait is price it. On Friday, Georgia Stanway of England failed to attain on a penalty kick in opposition to Haiti solely to have one other video assessment grant her a second try, which she transformed. That similar night time, the very same sequence performed out for Riko Ueki of Japan.
In every case, as with Van der Gragt’s aim for the Netherlands on Sunday, the key participant in the wait was soccer’s video assistant referee system. The system was launched a number of years in the past to not re-referee video games, however to make sure that the officers obtained all the massive calls appropriate.
While few would argue with that motivation, the system’s many detractors complain that in making an attempt to do the proper factor, V.A.R. is robbing the recreation of a few of its spontaneity. Penalty choices now routinely take a number of minutes to substantiate as performs are scrutinized once more and once more. Goals are dominated out and then given. Sometimes that leaves gamers ready, and ready, for affirmation that one thing is definitely price celebrating.
Not everybody, although, minds the wait. A couple of minutes earlier than Smith’s delayed-gratification aim in opposition to Vietnam, the United States had been awarded a penalty kick when the match referee, once more utilizing video assessment, overruled her preliminary determination {that a} foul in opposition to Trinity Rodman didn’t benefit a visit to the penalty spot.
United States Coach Vlatko Andonovski mentioned he would by no means complain about the wait to get a name appropriate.
“With all the cameras, with V.A.R., with all the angles that the referees are reviewing, I’m sure that they’re calling the right call,” he mentioned.
The upside for van der Gragt on Sunday? She obtained to have a good time the recreation’s solely aim twice.
Despite a profitable run in worldwide play over the previous few years, France has been in turmoil behind the scenes. In March, the French federation fired its longtime coach, Corinne Diacre, after gamers complained of an unhealthy setting on the group.
Hervé Renard, a well-traveled coach however one who had by no means led a girls’s group, has labored to regular the ship.
But Jamaica, a group enjoying in its second World Cup, stifled that run on Sunday, incomes its first ever level in the standings with an unlikely draw in opposition to France, 0-0. Jamaica had to make use of crowdfunding web sites to lift cash for the group’s journey to Australia and New Zealand, and misplaced all three of its video games in the group stage in 2019.
The first 4 days of the World Cup have produced a string of curiously slim rating strains for a few of the event favorites. A scoreless tie for Canada. A 1-0 win for England, the European champion, in opposition to the World Cup newcomer Haiti. The United States’ 3-0 victory over Vietnam.
Sunday introduced the prospect of the event’s first true shocker. And then identical to that, it was gone.
The scare got here courtesy of South Africa, and striker Hildah Magaia, who bundled a rebound into Sweden’s aim three minutes into the second half to offer her group a shocking 1-0 lead in opposition to Sweden, the world’s third-ranked group. The South African gamers might hardly imagine their luck, and have been quickly celebrating with a dance. Their teaching employees poured off the bench and then dissolved right into a collection of bear hugs.
But then Sweden stormed again. Fridolina Rolfo tied rating with a aim at the again submit in the sixty fifth minute, and defender Amanda Ilestedt obtained the winner with a header off a nook kick in the ninetieth.
Much was made earlier than the World Cup of the potential hole between the eight first-time entrants and the conventional powers. The first week has proven the expertise hole may not be as yawning as some assume.
To a small subset of devoted soccer followers, Sophia Smith’s aim celebration throughout the United States’ 3-0 victory in opposition to Vietnam would have seemed acquainted.
After her second aim in the U.S. group’s 3-0 victory over Vietnam, Smith ran her fingers throughout her lips to zip them and then threw away an imaginary key. It was the similar aim celebration her good good friend and former Stanford teammate Katie Meyer used throughout a penalty shootout at the 2019 N.C.A.A. championship recreation. The gesture by Meyer, Stanford’s goalkeeper and group captain, quickly went viral.
When Stanford gained the penalty shootout that day, Smith ran to Meyer and leaped onto her, inflicting them each to tumble to the floor.
Just over two years later, in March 2022, Meyer was discovered lifeless in her dorm room just a few months earlier than commencement. She had killed herself.
“That was for Katie,” Smith mentioned after the Vietnam recreation, explaining that she and one other former Stanford participant on the U.S. group, Naomi Girma, had deliberate the aim celebration in the days main as much as the World Cup. Both have devoted this event to Meyer.
In Meyer’s reminiscence, Smith and Girma additionally launched a psychological well being care initiative with the nonprofit Common Goal that included filming a public service announcement with a number of of their U.S. teammates. “We just want to honor her in every way,” Smith mentioned.
Vulnerability is an indication of energy, not weak spot. My teammates and I are decided to verify everybody has the assist they want.
Launching the first psychological well being initiative of its form with my pals at @CommonGoalOrg.
This one’s for you Katie ❤️ pic.twitter.com/AoGLUcxeMU
— Naomi Girma (@naomi_girma) July 18, 2023
Smith mentioned Meyer’s dying “changed everything” about her life. It has helped her worth her friendships extra, she mentioned, and put different points into perspective.
“Now I don’t take things too seriously,” mentioned Smith, who left Stanford two years early to play professionally. “I realized that there’s so many more important things happening and the little things that stress me out take a toll on me.”
France arrived in Australia as a World Cup favourite on the mend. Torn aside by bitter feuds, it has in current months misplaced gamers, welcomed them again, and then misplaced them once more. It has modified coaches, modified approaches and modified techniques. And now it has requested Hervé Renard, a revered 54-year-old with a adorned males’s World Cup résumé however no earlier expertise teaching girls, to hold it a minimum of so far as the semifinals.
He began the course of, he mentioned, by being open about what he didn’t know.
“For me everything was new because I didn’t know women’s football, how to manage the girls,” he mentioned. “I was lucky because on our staff a lot of people were already working with women’s football. So I was listening.”
The Women’s World Cup’s latest aim celebration is delayed gratification.
The newest participant to hitch the membership was Stefanie van der Gragt of the Netherlands, who scored her group’s solely aim in a 1-0 victory in opposition to Portugal on Sunday, had it dominated out instantly for offside and then, three lengthy minutes later, had it reinstated after a video assessment.
“It’s always difficult to wait,” van der Gragt mentioned. “But it doesn’t matter: We win, and that’s what is important.”
Van der Gragt’s transient emotional roller-coaster has been echoed in different video games on this event. Sophia Smith of the United States skilled the similar wait a day earlier, when her second aim in opposition to Vietnam was initially disallowed and then returned to her after the officers took a re-examination.
Many occasions, the wait is price it. On Friday, Georgia Stanway of England failed to attain on a penalty kick in opposition to Haiti solely to have one other video assessment grant her a second try, which she transformed. That similar night time, the very same sequence performed out for Riko Ueki of Japan.
In every case, as with Van der Gragt’s aim for the Netherlands on Sunday, the key participant in the wait was soccer’s video assistant referee system. The system was launched a number of years in the past to not re-referee video games, however to make sure that the officers obtained all the massive calls appropriate.
While few would argue with that motivation, the system’s many detractors complain that in making an attempt to do the proper factor, V.A.R. is robbing the recreation of a few of its spontaneity. Penalty choices now routinely take a number of minutes to substantiate as performs are scrutinized once more and once more. Goals are dominated out and then given. Sometimes that leaves gamers ready, and ready, for affirmation that one thing is definitely price celebrating.
Not everybody, although, minds the wait. A couple of minutes earlier than Smith’s delayed-gratification aim in opposition to Vietnam, the United States had been awarded a penalty kick when the match referee, once more utilizing video assessment, overruled her preliminary determination {that a} foul in opposition to Trinity Rodman didn’t benefit a visit to the penalty spot.
United States Coach Vlatko Andonovski mentioned he would by no means complain about the wait to get a name appropriate.
“With all the cameras, with V.A.R., with all the angles that the referees are reviewing, I’m sure that they’re calling the right call,” he mentioned.
The upside for van der Gragt on Sunday? She obtained to have a good time the recreation’s solely aim twice.
Despite a profitable run in worldwide play over the previous few years, France has been in turmoil behind the scenes. In March, the French federation fired its longtime coach, Corinne Diacre, after gamers complained of an unhealthy setting on the group.
Hervé Renard, a well-traveled coach however one who had by no means led a girls’s group, has labored to regular the ship.
But Jamaica, a group enjoying in its second World Cup, stifled that run on Sunday, incomes its first ever level in the standings with an unlikely draw in opposition to France, 0-0. Jamaica had to make use of crowdfunding web sites to lift cash for the group’s journey to Australia and New Zealand, and misplaced all three of its video games in the group stage in 2019.
The first 4 days of the World Cup have produced a string of curiously slim rating strains for a few of the event favorites. A scoreless tie for Canada. A 1-0 win for England, the European champion, in opposition to the World Cup newcomer Haiti. The United States’ 3-0 victory over Vietnam.
Sunday introduced the prospect of the event’s first true shocker. And then identical to that, it was gone.
The scare got here courtesy of South Africa, and striker Hildah Magaia, who bundled a rebound into Sweden’s aim three minutes into the second half to offer her group a shocking 1-0 lead in opposition to Sweden, the world’s third-ranked group. The South African gamers might hardly imagine their luck, and have been quickly celebrating with a dance. Their teaching employees poured off the bench and then dissolved right into a collection of bear hugs.
But then Sweden stormed again. Fridolina Rolfo tied rating with a aim at the again submit in the sixty fifth minute, and defender Amanda Ilestedt obtained the winner with a header off a nook kick in the ninetieth.
Much was made earlier than the World Cup of the potential hole between the eight first-time entrants and the conventional powers. The first week has proven the expertise hole may not be as yawning as some assume.
To a small subset of devoted soccer followers, Sophia Smith’s aim celebration throughout the United States’ 3-0 victory in opposition to Vietnam would have seemed acquainted.
After her second aim in the U.S. group’s 3-0 victory over Vietnam, Smith ran her fingers throughout her lips to zip them and then threw away an imaginary key. It was the similar aim celebration her good good friend and former Stanford teammate Katie Meyer used throughout a penalty shootout at the 2019 N.C.A.A. championship recreation. The gesture by Meyer, Stanford’s goalkeeper and group captain, quickly went viral.
When Stanford gained the penalty shootout that day, Smith ran to Meyer and leaped onto her, inflicting them each to tumble to the floor.
Just over two years later, in March 2022, Meyer was discovered lifeless in her dorm room just a few months earlier than commencement. She had killed herself.
“That was for Katie,” Smith mentioned after the Vietnam recreation, explaining that she and one other former Stanford participant on the U.S. group, Naomi Girma, had deliberate the aim celebration in the days main as much as the World Cup. Both have devoted this event to Meyer.
In Meyer’s reminiscence, Smith and Girma additionally launched a psychological well being care initiative with the nonprofit Common Goal that included filming a public service announcement with a number of of their U.S. teammates. “We just want to honor her in every way,” Smith mentioned.
Vulnerability is an indication of energy, not weak spot. My teammates and I are decided to verify everybody has the assist they want.
Launching the first psychological well being initiative of its form with my pals at @CommonGoalOrg.
This one’s for you Katie ❤️ pic.twitter.com/AoGLUcxeMU
— Naomi Girma (@naomi_girma) July 18, 2023
Smith mentioned Meyer’s dying “changed everything” about her life. It has helped her worth her friendships extra, she mentioned, and put different points into perspective.
“Now I don’t take things too seriously,” mentioned Smith, who left Stanford two years early to play professionally. “I realized that there’s so many more important things happening and the little things that stress me out take a toll on me.”
France arrived in Australia as a World Cup favourite on the mend. Torn aside by bitter feuds, it has in current months misplaced gamers, welcomed them again, and then misplaced them once more. It has modified coaches, modified approaches and modified techniques. And now it has requested Hervé Renard, a revered 54-year-old with a adorned males’s World Cup résumé however no earlier expertise teaching girls, to hold it a minimum of so far as the semifinals.
He began the course of, he mentioned, by being open about what he didn’t know.
“For me everything was new because I didn’t know women’s football, how to manage the girls,” he mentioned. “I was lucky because on our staff a lot of people were already working with women’s football. So I was listening.”
The Women’s World Cup’s latest aim celebration is delayed gratification.
The newest participant to hitch the membership was Stefanie van der Gragt of the Netherlands, who scored her group’s solely aim in a 1-0 victory in opposition to Portugal on Sunday, had it dominated out instantly for offside and then, three lengthy minutes later, had it reinstated after a video assessment.
“It’s always difficult to wait,” van der Gragt mentioned. “But it doesn’t matter: We win, and that’s what is important.”
Van der Gragt’s transient emotional roller-coaster has been echoed in different video games on this event. Sophia Smith of the United States skilled the similar wait a day earlier, when her second aim in opposition to Vietnam was initially disallowed and then returned to her after the officers took a re-examination.
Many occasions, the wait is price it. On Friday, Georgia Stanway of England failed to attain on a penalty kick in opposition to Haiti solely to have one other video assessment grant her a second try, which she transformed. That similar night time, the very same sequence performed out for Riko Ueki of Japan.
In every case, as with Van der Gragt’s aim for the Netherlands on Sunday, the key participant in the wait was soccer’s video assistant referee system. The system was launched a number of years in the past to not re-referee video games, however to make sure that the officers obtained all the massive calls appropriate.
While few would argue with that motivation, the system’s many detractors complain that in making an attempt to do the proper factor, V.A.R. is robbing the recreation of a few of its spontaneity. Penalty choices now routinely take a number of minutes to substantiate as performs are scrutinized once more and once more. Goals are dominated out and then given. Sometimes that leaves gamers ready, and ready, for affirmation that one thing is definitely price celebrating.
Not everybody, although, minds the wait. A couple of minutes earlier than Smith’s delayed-gratification aim in opposition to Vietnam, the United States had been awarded a penalty kick when the match referee, once more utilizing video assessment, overruled her preliminary determination {that a} foul in opposition to Trinity Rodman didn’t benefit a visit to the penalty spot.
United States Coach Vlatko Andonovski mentioned he would by no means complain about the wait to get a name appropriate.
“With all the cameras, with V.A.R., with all the angles that the referees are reviewing, I’m sure that they’re calling the right call,” he mentioned.
The upside for van der Gragt on Sunday? She obtained to have a good time the recreation’s solely aim twice.
Despite a profitable run in worldwide play over the previous few years, France has been in turmoil behind the scenes. In March, the French federation fired its longtime coach, Corinne Diacre, after gamers complained of an unhealthy setting on the group.
Hervé Renard, a well-traveled coach however one who had by no means led a girls’s group, has labored to regular the ship.
But Jamaica, a group enjoying in its second World Cup, stifled that run on Sunday, incomes its first ever level in the standings with an unlikely draw in opposition to France, 0-0. Jamaica had to make use of crowdfunding web sites to lift cash for the group’s journey to Australia and New Zealand, and misplaced all three of its video games in the group stage in 2019.
The first 4 days of the World Cup have produced a string of curiously slim rating strains for a few of the event favorites. A scoreless tie for Canada. A 1-0 win for England, the European champion, in opposition to the World Cup newcomer Haiti. The United States’ 3-0 victory over Vietnam.
Sunday introduced the prospect of the event’s first true shocker. And then identical to that, it was gone.
The scare got here courtesy of South Africa, and striker Hildah Magaia, who bundled a rebound into Sweden’s aim three minutes into the second half to offer her group a shocking 1-0 lead in opposition to Sweden, the world’s third-ranked group. The South African gamers might hardly imagine their luck, and have been quickly celebrating with a dance. Their teaching employees poured off the bench and then dissolved right into a collection of bear hugs.
But then Sweden stormed again. Fridolina Rolfo tied rating with a aim at the again submit in the sixty fifth minute, and defender Amanda Ilestedt obtained the winner with a header off a nook kick in the ninetieth.
Much was made earlier than the World Cup of the potential hole between the eight first-time entrants and the conventional powers. The first week has proven the expertise hole may not be as yawning as some assume.
To a small subset of devoted soccer followers, Sophia Smith’s aim celebration throughout the United States’ 3-0 victory in opposition to Vietnam would have seemed acquainted.
After her second aim in the U.S. group’s 3-0 victory over Vietnam, Smith ran her fingers throughout her lips to zip them and then threw away an imaginary key. It was the similar aim celebration her good good friend and former Stanford teammate Katie Meyer used throughout a penalty shootout at the 2019 N.C.A.A. championship recreation. The gesture by Meyer, Stanford’s goalkeeper and group captain, quickly went viral.
When Stanford gained the penalty shootout that day, Smith ran to Meyer and leaped onto her, inflicting them each to tumble to the floor.
Just over two years later, in March 2022, Meyer was discovered lifeless in her dorm room just a few months earlier than commencement. She had killed herself.
“That was for Katie,” Smith mentioned after the Vietnam recreation, explaining that she and one other former Stanford participant on the U.S. group, Naomi Girma, had deliberate the aim celebration in the days main as much as the World Cup. Both have devoted this event to Meyer.
In Meyer’s reminiscence, Smith and Girma additionally launched a psychological well being care initiative with the nonprofit Common Goal that included filming a public service announcement with a number of of their U.S. teammates. “We just want to honor her in every way,” Smith mentioned.
Vulnerability is an indication of energy, not weak spot. My teammates and I are decided to verify everybody has the assist they want.
Launching the first psychological well being initiative of its form with my pals at @CommonGoalOrg.
This one’s for you Katie ❤️ pic.twitter.com/AoGLUcxeMU
— Naomi Girma (@naomi_girma) July 18, 2023
Smith mentioned Meyer’s dying “changed everything” about her life. It has helped her worth her friendships extra, she mentioned, and put different points into perspective.
“Now I don’t take things too seriously,” mentioned Smith, who left Stanford two years early to play professionally. “I realized that there’s so many more important things happening and the little things that stress me out take a toll on me.”
France arrived in Australia as a World Cup favourite on the mend. Torn aside by bitter feuds, it has in current months misplaced gamers, welcomed them again, and then misplaced them once more. It has modified coaches, modified approaches and modified techniques. And now it has requested Hervé Renard, a revered 54-year-old with a adorned males’s World Cup résumé however no earlier expertise teaching girls, to hold it a minimum of so far as the semifinals.
He began the course of, he mentioned, by being open about what he didn’t know.
“For me everything was new because I didn’t know women’s football, how to manage the girls,” he mentioned. “I was lucky because on our staff a lot of people were already working with women’s football. So I was listening.”
The Women’s World Cup’s latest aim celebration is delayed gratification.
The newest participant to hitch the membership was Stefanie van der Gragt of the Netherlands, who scored her group’s solely aim in a 1-0 victory in opposition to Portugal on Sunday, had it dominated out instantly for offside and then, three lengthy minutes later, had it reinstated after a video assessment.
“It’s always difficult to wait,” van der Gragt mentioned. “But it doesn’t matter: We win, and that’s what is important.”
Van der Gragt’s transient emotional roller-coaster has been echoed in different video games on this event. Sophia Smith of the United States skilled the similar wait a day earlier, when her second aim in opposition to Vietnam was initially disallowed and then returned to her after the officers took a re-examination.
Many occasions, the wait is price it. On Friday, Georgia Stanway of England failed to attain on a penalty kick in opposition to Haiti solely to have one other video assessment grant her a second try, which she transformed. That similar night time, the very same sequence performed out for Riko Ueki of Japan.
In every case, as with Van der Gragt’s aim for the Netherlands on Sunday, the key participant in the wait was soccer’s video assistant referee system. The system was launched a number of years in the past to not re-referee video games, however to make sure that the officers obtained all the massive calls appropriate.
While few would argue with that motivation, the system’s many detractors complain that in making an attempt to do the proper factor, V.A.R. is robbing the recreation of a few of its spontaneity. Penalty choices now routinely take a number of minutes to substantiate as performs are scrutinized once more and once more. Goals are dominated out and then given. Sometimes that leaves gamers ready, and ready, for affirmation that one thing is definitely price celebrating.
Not everybody, although, minds the wait. A couple of minutes earlier than Smith’s delayed-gratification aim in opposition to Vietnam, the United States had been awarded a penalty kick when the match referee, once more utilizing video assessment, overruled her preliminary determination {that a} foul in opposition to Trinity Rodman didn’t benefit a visit to the penalty spot.
United States Coach Vlatko Andonovski mentioned he would by no means complain about the wait to get a name appropriate.
“With all the cameras, with V.A.R., with all the angles that the referees are reviewing, I’m sure that they’re calling the right call,” he mentioned.
The upside for van der Gragt on Sunday? She obtained to have a good time the recreation’s solely aim twice.
Despite a profitable run in worldwide play over the previous few years, France has been in turmoil behind the scenes. In March, the French federation fired its longtime coach, Corinne Diacre, after gamers complained of an unhealthy setting on the group.
Hervé Renard, a well-traveled coach however one who had by no means led a girls’s group, has labored to regular the ship.
But Jamaica, a group enjoying in its second World Cup, stifled that run on Sunday, incomes its first ever level in the standings with an unlikely draw in opposition to France, 0-0. Jamaica had to make use of crowdfunding web sites to lift cash for the group’s journey to Australia and New Zealand, and misplaced all three of its video games in the group stage in 2019.
The first 4 days of the World Cup have produced a string of curiously slim rating strains for a few of the event favorites. A scoreless tie for Canada. A 1-0 win for England, the European champion, in opposition to the World Cup newcomer Haiti. The United States’ 3-0 victory over Vietnam.
Sunday introduced the prospect of the event’s first true shocker. And then identical to that, it was gone.
The scare got here courtesy of South Africa, and striker Hildah Magaia, who bundled a rebound into Sweden’s aim three minutes into the second half to offer her group a shocking 1-0 lead in opposition to Sweden, the world’s third-ranked group. The South African gamers might hardly imagine their luck, and have been quickly celebrating with a dance. Their teaching employees poured off the bench and then dissolved right into a collection of bear hugs.
But then Sweden stormed again. Fridolina Rolfo tied rating with a aim at the again submit in the sixty fifth minute, and defender Amanda Ilestedt obtained the winner with a header off a nook kick in the ninetieth.
Much was made earlier than the World Cup of the potential hole between the eight first-time entrants and the conventional powers. The first week has proven the expertise hole may not be as yawning as some assume.
To a small subset of devoted soccer followers, Sophia Smith’s aim celebration throughout the United States’ 3-0 victory in opposition to Vietnam would have seemed acquainted.
After her second aim in the U.S. group’s 3-0 victory over Vietnam, Smith ran her fingers throughout her lips to zip them and then threw away an imaginary key. It was the similar aim celebration her good good friend and former Stanford teammate Katie Meyer used throughout a penalty shootout at the 2019 N.C.A.A. championship recreation. The gesture by Meyer, Stanford’s goalkeeper and group captain, quickly went viral.
When Stanford gained the penalty shootout that day, Smith ran to Meyer and leaped onto her, inflicting them each to tumble to the floor.
Just over two years later, in March 2022, Meyer was discovered lifeless in her dorm room just a few months earlier than commencement. She had killed herself.
“That was for Katie,” Smith mentioned after the Vietnam recreation, explaining that she and one other former Stanford participant on the U.S. group, Naomi Girma, had deliberate the aim celebration in the days main as much as the World Cup. Both have devoted this event to Meyer.
In Meyer’s reminiscence, Smith and Girma additionally launched a psychological well being care initiative with the nonprofit Common Goal that included filming a public service announcement with a number of of their U.S. teammates. “We just want to honor her in every way,” Smith mentioned.
Vulnerability is an indication of energy, not weak spot. My teammates and I are decided to verify everybody has the assist they want.
Launching the first psychological well being initiative of its form with my pals at @CommonGoalOrg.
This one’s for you Katie ❤️ pic.twitter.com/AoGLUcxeMU
— Naomi Girma (@naomi_girma) July 18, 2023
Smith mentioned Meyer’s dying “changed everything” about her life. It has helped her worth her friendships extra, she mentioned, and put different points into perspective.
“Now I don’t take things too seriously,” mentioned Smith, who left Stanford two years early to play professionally. “I realized that there’s so many more important things happening and the little things that stress me out take a toll on me.”
France arrived in Australia as a World Cup favourite on the mend. Torn aside by bitter feuds, it has in current months misplaced gamers, welcomed them again, and then misplaced them once more. It has modified coaches, modified approaches and modified techniques. And now it has requested Hervé Renard, a revered 54-year-old with a adorned males’s World Cup résumé however no earlier expertise teaching girls, to hold it a minimum of so far as the semifinals.
He began the course of, he mentioned, by being open about what he didn’t know.
“For me everything was new because I didn’t know women’s football, how to manage the girls,” he mentioned. “I was lucky because on our staff a lot of people were already working with women’s football. So I was listening.”
The Women’s World Cup’s latest aim celebration is delayed gratification.
The newest participant to hitch the membership was Stefanie van der Gragt of the Netherlands, who scored her group’s solely aim in a 1-0 victory in opposition to Portugal on Sunday, had it dominated out instantly for offside and then, three lengthy minutes later, had it reinstated after a video assessment.
“It’s always difficult to wait,” van der Gragt mentioned. “But it doesn’t matter: We win, and that’s what is important.”
Van der Gragt’s transient emotional roller-coaster has been echoed in different video games on this event. Sophia Smith of the United States skilled the similar wait a day earlier, when her second aim in opposition to Vietnam was initially disallowed and then returned to her after the officers took a re-examination.
Many occasions, the wait is price it. On Friday, Georgia Stanway of England failed to attain on a penalty kick in opposition to Haiti solely to have one other video assessment grant her a second try, which she transformed. That similar night time, the very same sequence performed out for Riko Ueki of Japan.
In every case, as with Van der Gragt’s aim for the Netherlands on Sunday, the key participant in the wait was soccer’s video assistant referee system. The system was launched a number of years in the past to not re-referee video games, however to make sure that the officers obtained all the massive calls appropriate.
While few would argue with that motivation, the system’s many detractors complain that in making an attempt to do the proper factor, V.A.R. is robbing the recreation of a few of its spontaneity. Penalty choices now routinely take a number of minutes to substantiate as performs are scrutinized once more and once more. Goals are dominated out and then given. Sometimes that leaves gamers ready, and ready, for affirmation that one thing is definitely price celebrating.
Not everybody, although, minds the wait. A couple of minutes earlier than Smith’s delayed-gratification aim in opposition to Vietnam, the United States had been awarded a penalty kick when the match referee, once more utilizing video assessment, overruled her preliminary determination {that a} foul in opposition to Trinity Rodman didn’t benefit a visit to the penalty spot.
United States Coach Vlatko Andonovski mentioned he would by no means complain about the wait to get a name appropriate.
“With all the cameras, with V.A.R., with all the angles that the referees are reviewing, I’m sure that they’re calling the right call,” he mentioned.
The upside for van der Gragt on Sunday? She obtained to have a good time the recreation’s solely aim twice.
Despite a profitable run in worldwide play over the previous few years, France has been in turmoil behind the scenes. In March, the French federation fired its longtime coach, Corinne Diacre, after gamers complained of an unhealthy setting on the group.
Hervé Renard, a well-traveled coach however one who had by no means led a girls’s group, has labored to regular the ship.
But Jamaica, a group enjoying in its second World Cup, stifled that run on Sunday, incomes its first ever level in the standings with an unlikely draw in opposition to France, 0-0. Jamaica had to make use of crowdfunding web sites to lift cash for the group’s journey to Australia and New Zealand, and misplaced all three of its video games in the group stage in 2019.
The first 4 days of the World Cup have produced a string of curiously slim rating strains for a few of the event favorites. A scoreless tie for Canada. A 1-0 win for England, the European champion, in opposition to the World Cup newcomer Haiti. The United States’ 3-0 victory over Vietnam.
Sunday introduced the prospect of the event’s first true shocker. And then identical to that, it was gone.
The scare got here courtesy of South Africa, and striker Hildah Magaia, who bundled a rebound into Sweden’s aim three minutes into the second half to offer her group a shocking 1-0 lead in opposition to Sweden, the world’s third-ranked group. The South African gamers might hardly imagine their luck, and have been quickly celebrating with a dance. Their teaching employees poured off the bench and then dissolved right into a collection of bear hugs.
But then Sweden stormed again. Fridolina Rolfo tied rating with a aim at the again submit in the sixty fifth minute, and defender Amanda Ilestedt obtained the winner with a header off a nook kick in the ninetieth.
Much was made earlier than the World Cup of the potential hole between the eight first-time entrants and the conventional powers. The first week has proven the expertise hole may not be as yawning as some assume.
To a small subset of devoted soccer followers, Sophia Smith’s aim celebration throughout the United States’ 3-0 victory in opposition to Vietnam would have seemed acquainted.
After her second aim in the U.S. group’s 3-0 victory over Vietnam, Smith ran her fingers throughout her lips to zip them and then threw away an imaginary key. It was the similar aim celebration her good good friend and former Stanford teammate Katie Meyer used throughout a penalty shootout at the 2019 N.C.A.A. championship recreation. The gesture by Meyer, Stanford’s goalkeeper and group captain, quickly went viral.
When Stanford gained the penalty shootout that day, Smith ran to Meyer and leaped onto her, inflicting them each to tumble to the floor.
Just over two years later, in March 2022, Meyer was discovered lifeless in her dorm room just a few months earlier than commencement. She had killed herself.
“That was for Katie,” Smith mentioned after the Vietnam recreation, explaining that she and one other former Stanford participant on the U.S. group, Naomi Girma, had deliberate the aim celebration in the days main as much as the World Cup. Both have devoted this event to Meyer.
In Meyer’s reminiscence, Smith and Girma additionally launched a psychological well being care initiative with the nonprofit Common Goal that included filming a public service announcement with a number of of their U.S. teammates. “We just want to honor her in every way,” Smith mentioned.
Vulnerability is an indication of energy, not weak spot. My teammates and I are decided to verify everybody has the assist they want.
Launching the first psychological well being initiative of its form with my pals at @CommonGoalOrg.
This one’s for you Katie ❤️ pic.twitter.com/AoGLUcxeMU
— Naomi Girma (@naomi_girma) July 18, 2023
Smith mentioned Meyer’s dying “changed everything” about her life. It has helped her worth her friendships extra, she mentioned, and put different points into perspective.
“Now I don’t take things too seriously,” mentioned Smith, who left Stanford two years early to play professionally. “I realized that there’s so many more important things happening and the little things that stress me out take a toll on me.”
France arrived in Australia as a World Cup favourite on the mend. Torn aside by bitter feuds, it has in current months misplaced gamers, welcomed them again, and then misplaced them once more. It has modified coaches, modified approaches and modified techniques. And now it has requested Hervé Renard, a revered 54-year-old with a adorned males’s World Cup résumé however no earlier expertise teaching girls, to hold it a minimum of so far as the semifinals.
He began the course of, he mentioned, by being open about what he didn’t know.
“For me everything was new because I didn’t know women’s football, how to manage the girls,” he mentioned. “I was lucky because on our staff a lot of people were already working with women’s football. So I was listening.”
The Women’s World Cup’s latest aim celebration is delayed gratification.
The newest participant to hitch the membership was Stefanie van der Gragt of the Netherlands, who scored her group’s solely aim in a 1-0 victory in opposition to Portugal on Sunday, had it dominated out instantly for offside and then, three lengthy minutes later, had it reinstated after a video assessment.
“It’s always difficult to wait,” van der Gragt mentioned. “But it doesn’t matter: We win, and that’s what is important.”
Van der Gragt’s transient emotional roller-coaster has been echoed in different video games on this event. Sophia Smith of the United States skilled the similar wait a day earlier, when her second aim in opposition to Vietnam was initially disallowed and then returned to her after the officers took a re-examination.
Many occasions, the wait is price it. On Friday, Georgia Stanway of England failed to attain on a penalty kick in opposition to Haiti solely to have one other video assessment grant her a second try, which she transformed. That similar night time, the very same sequence performed out for Riko Ueki of Japan.
In every case, as with Van der Gragt’s aim for the Netherlands on Sunday, the key participant in the wait was soccer’s video assistant referee system. The system was launched a number of years in the past to not re-referee video games, however to make sure that the officers obtained all the massive calls appropriate.
While few would argue with that motivation, the system’s many detractors complain that in making an attempt to do the proper factor, V.A.R. is robbing the recreation of a few of its spontaneity. Penalty choices now routinely take a number of minutes to substantiate as performs are scrutinized once more and once more. Goals are dominated out and then given. Sometimes that leaves gamers ready, and ready, for affirmation that one thing is definitely price celebrating.
Not everybody, although, minds the wait. A couple of minutes earlier than Smith’s delayed-gratification aim in opposition to Vietnam, the United States had been awarded a penalty kick when the match referee, once more utilizing video assessment, overruled her preliminary determination {that a} foul in opposition to Trinity Rodman didn’t benefit a visit to the penalty spot.
United States Coach Vlatko Andonovski mentioned he would by no means complain about the wait to get a name appropriate.
“With all the cameras, with V.A.R., with all the angles that the referees are reviewing, I’m sure that they’re calling the right call,” he mentioned.
The upside for van der Gragt on Sunday? She obtained to have a good time the recreation’s solely aim twice.
Despite a profitable run in worldwide play over the previous few years, France has been in turmoil behind the scenes. In March, the French federation fired its longtime coach, Corinne Diacre, after gamers complained of an unhealthy setting on the group.
Hervé Renard, a well-traveled coach however one who had by no means led a girls’s group, has labored to regular the ship.
But Jamaica, a group enjoying in its second World Cup, stifled that run on Sunday, incomes its first ever level in the standings with an unlikely draw in opposition to France, 0-0. Jamaica had to make use of crowdfunding web sites to lift cash for the group’s journey to Australia and New Zealand, and misplaced all three of its video games in the group stage in 2019.
The first 4 days of the World Cup have produced a string of curiously slim rating strains for a few of the event favorites. A scoreless tie for Canada. A 1-0 win for England, the European champion, in opposition to the World Cup newcomer Haiti. The United States’ 3-0 victory over Vietnam.
Sunday introduced the prospect of the event’s first true shocker. And then identical to that, it was gone.
The scare got here courtesy of South Africa, and striker Hildah Magaia, who bundled a rebound into Sweden’s aim three minutes into the second half to offer her group a shocking 1-0 lead in opposition to Sweden, the world’s third-ranked group. The South African gamers might hardly imagine their luck, and have been quickly celebrating with a dance. Their teaching employees poured off the bench and then dissolved right into a collection of bear hugs.
But then Sweden stormed again. Fridolina Rolfo tied rating with a aim at the again submit in the sixty fifth minute, and defender Amanda Ilestedt obtained the winner with a header off a nook kick in the ninetieth.
Much was made earlier than the World Cup of the potential hole between the eight first-time entrants and the conventional powers. The first week has proven the expertise hole may not be as yawning as some assume.
To a small subset of devoted soccer followers, Sophia Smith’s aim celebration throughout the United States’ 3-0 victory in opposition to Vietnam would have seemed acquainted.
After her second aim in the U.S. group’s 3-0 victory over Vietnam, Smith ran her fingers throughout her lips to zip them and then threw away an imaginary key. It was the similar aim celebration her good good friend and former Stanford teammate Katie Meyer used throughout a penalty shootout at the 2019 N.C.A.A. championship recreation. The gesture by Meyer, Stanford’s goalkeeper and group captain, quickly went viral.
When Stanford gained the penalty shootout that day, Smith ran to Meyer and leaped onto her, inflicting them each to tumble to the floor.
Just over two years later, in March 2022, Meyer was discovered lifeless in her dorm room just a few months earlier than commencement. She had killed herself.
“That was for Katie,” Smith mentioned after the Vietnam recreation, explaining that she and one other former Stanford participant on the U.S. group, Naomi Girma, had deliberate the aim celebration in the days main as much as the World Cup. Both have devoted this event to Meyer.
In Meyer’s reminiscence, Smith and Girma additionally launched a psychological well being care initiative with the nonprofit Common Goal that included filming a public service announcement with a number of of their U.S. teammates. “We just want to honor her in every way,” Smith mentioned.
Vulnerability is an indication of energy, not weak spot. My teammates and I are decided to verify everybody has the assist they want.
Launching the first psychological well being initiative of its form with my pals at @CommonGoalOrg.
This one’s for you Katie ❤️ pic.twitter.com/AoGLUcxeMU
— Naomi Girma (@naomi_girma) July 18, 2023
Smith mentioned Meyer’s dying “changed everything” about her life. It has helped her worth her friendships extra, she mentioned, and put different points into perspective.
“Now I don’t take things too seriously,” mentioned Smith, who left Stanford two years early to play professionally. “I realized that there’s so many more important things happening and the little things that stress me out take a toll on me.”
France arrived in Australia as a World Cup favourite on the mend. Torn aside by bitter feuds, it has in current months misplaced gamers, welcomed them again, and then misplaced them once more. It has modified coaches, modified approaches and modified techniques. And now it has requested Hervé Renard, a revered 54-year-old with a adorned males’s World Cup résumé however no earlier expertise teaching girls, to hold it a minimum of so far as the semifinals.
He began the course of, he mentioned, by being open about what he didn’t know.
“For me everything was new because I didn’t know women’s football, how to manage the girls,” he mentioned. “I was lucky because on our staff a lot of people were already working with women’s football. So I was listening.”
The Women’s World Cup’s latest aim celebration is delayed gratification.
The newest participant to hitch the membership was Stefanie van der Gragt of the Netherlands, who scored her group’s solely aim in a 1-0 victory in opposition to Portugal on Sunday, had it dominated out instantly for offside and then, three lengthy minutes later, had it reinstated after a video assessment.
“It’s always difficult to wait,” van der Gragt mentioned. “But it doesn’t matter: We win, and that’s what is important.”
Van der Gragt’s transient emotional roller-coaster has been echoed in different video games on this event. Sophia Smith of the United States skilled the similar wait a day earlier, when her second aim in opposition to Vietnam was initially disallowed and then returned to her after the officers took a re-examination.
Many occasions, the wait is price it. On Friday, Georgia Stanway of England failed to attain on a penalty kick in opposition to Haiti solely to have one other video assessment grant her a second try, which she transformed. That similar night time, the very same sequence performed out for Riko Ueki of Japan.
In every case, as with Van der Gragt’s aim for the Netherlands on Sunday, the key participant in the wait was soccer’s video assistant referee system. The system was launched a number of years in the past to not re-referee video games, however to make sure that the officers obtained all the massive calls appropriate.
While few would argue with that motivation, the system’s many detractors complain that in making an attempt to do the proper factor, V.A.R. is robbing the recreation of a few of its spontaneity. Penalty choices now routinely take a number of minutes to substantiate as performs are scrutinized once more and once more. Goals are dominated out and then given. Sometimes that leaves gamers ready, and ready, for affirmation that one thing is definitely price celebrating.
Not everybody, although, minds the wait. A couple of minutes earlier than Smith’s delayed-gratification aim in opposition to Vietnam, the United States had been awarded a penalty kick when the match referee, once more utilizing video assessment, overruled her preliminary determination {that a} foul in opposition to Trinity Rodman didn’t benefit a visit to the penalty spot.
United States Coach Vlatko Andonovski mentioned he would by no means complain about the wait to get a name appropriate.
“With all the cameras, with V.A.R., with all the angles that the referees are reviewing, I’m sure that they’re calling the right call,” he mentioned.
The upside for van der Gragt on Sunday? She obtained to have a good time the recreation’s solely aim twice.
Despite a profitable run in worldwide play over the previous few years, France has been in turmoil behind the scenes. In March, the French federation fired its longtime coach, Corinne Diacre, after gamers complained of an unhealthy setting on the group.
Hervé Renard, a well-traveled coach however one who had by no means led a girls’s group, has labored to regular the ship.
But Jamaica, a group enjoying in its second World Cup, stifled that run on Sunday, incomes its first ever level in the standings with an unlikely draw in opposition to France, 0-0. Jamaica had to make use of crowdfunding web sites to lift cash for the group’s journey to Australia and New Zealand, and misplaced all three of its video games in the group stage in 2019.
The first 4 days of the World Cup have produced a string of curiously slim rating strains for a few of the event favorites. A scoreless tie for Canada. A 1-0 win for England, the European champion, in opposition to the World Cup newcomer Haiti. The United States’ 3-0 victory over Vietnam.
Sunday introduced the prospect of the event’s first true shocker. And then identical to that, it was gone.
The scare got here courtesy of South Africa, and striker Hildah Magaia, who bundled a rebound into Sweden’s aim three minutes into the second half to offer her group a shocking 1-0 lead in opposition to Sweden, the world’s third-ranked group. The South African gamers might hardly imagine their luck, and have been quickly celebrating with a dance. Their teaching employees poured off the bench and then dissolved right into a collection of bear hugs.
But then Sweden stormed again. Fridolina Rolfo tied rating with a aim at the again submit in the sixty fifth minute, and defender Amanda Ilestedt obtained the winner with a header off a nook kick in the ninetieth.
Much was made earlier than the World Cup of the potential hole between the eight first-time entrants and the conventional powers. The first week has proven the expertise hole may not be as yawning as some assume.
To a small subset of devoted soccer followers, Sophia Smith’s aim celebration throughout the United States’ 3-0 victory in opposition to Vietnam would have seemed acquainted.
After her second aim in the U.S. group’s 3-0 victory over Vietnam, Smith ran her fingers throughout her lips to zip them and then threw away an imaginary key. It was the similar aim celebration her good good friend and former Stanford teammate Katie Meyer used throughout a penalty shootout at the 2019 N.C.A.A. championship recreation. The gesture by Meyer, Stanford’s goalkeeper and group captain, quickly went viral.
When Stanford gained the penalty shootout that day, Smith ran to Meyer and leaped onto her, inflicting them each to tumble to the floor.
Just over two years later, in March 2022, Meyer was discovered lifeless in her dorm room just a few months earlier than commencement. She had killed herself.
“That was for Katie,” Smith mentioned after the Vietnam recreation, explaining that she and one other former Stanford participant on the U.S. group, Naomi Girma, had deliberate the aim celebration in the days main as much as the World Cup. Both have devoted this event to Meyer.
In Meyer’s reminiscence, Smith and Girma additionally launched a psychological well being care initiative with the nonprofit Common Goal that included filming a public service announcement with a number of of their U.S. teammates. “We just want to honor her in every way,” Smith mentioned.
Vulnerability is an indication of energy, not weak spot. My teammates and I are decided to verify everybody has the assist they want.
Launching the first psychological well being initiative of its form with my pals at @CommonGoalOrg.
This one’s for you Katie ❤️ pic.twitter.com/AoGLUcxeMU
— Naomi Girma (@naomi_girma) July 18, 2023
Smith mentioned Meyer’s dying “changed everything” about her life. It has helped her worth her friendships extra, she mentioned, and put different points into perspective.
“Now I don’t take things too seriously,” mentioned Smith, who left Stanford two years early to play professionally. “I realized that there’s so many more important things happening and the little things that stress me out take a toll on me.”
France arrived in Australia as a World Cup favourite on the mend. Torn aside by bitter feuds, it has in current months misplaced gamers, welcomed them again, and then misplaced them once more. It has modified coaches, modified approaches and modified techniques. And now it has requested Hervé Renard, a revered 54-year-old with a adorned males’s World Cup résumé however no earlier expertise teaching girls, to hold it a minimum of so far as the semifinals.
He began the course of, he mentioned, by being open about what he didn’t know.
“For me everything was new because I didn’t know women’s football, how to manage the girls,” he mentioned. “I was lucky because on our staff a lot of people were already working with women’s football. So I was listening.”
The Women’s World Cup’s latest aim celebration is delayed gratification.
The newest participant to hitch the membership was Stefanie van der Gragt of the Netherlands, who scored her group’s solely aim in a 1-0 victory in opposition to Portugal on Sunday, had it dominated out instantly for offside and then, three lengthy minutes later, had it reinstated after a video assessment.
“It’s always difficult to wait,” van der Gragt mentioned. “But it doesn’t matter: We win, and that’s what is important.”
Van der Gragt’s transient emotional roller-coaster has been echoed in different video games on this event. Sophia Smith of the United States skilled the similar wait a day earlier, when her second aim in opposition to Vietnam was initially disallowed and then returned to her after the officers took a re-examination.
Many occasions, the wait is price it. On Friday, Georgia Stanway of England failed to attain on a penalty kick in opposition to Haiti solely to have one other video assessment grant her a second try, which she transformed. That similar night time, the very same sequence performed out for Riko Ueki of Japan.
In every case, as with Van der Gragt’s aim for the Netherlands on Sunday, the key participant in the wait was soccer’s video assistant referee system. The system was launched a number of years in the past to not re-referee video games, however to make sure that the officers obtained all the massive calls appropriate.
While few would argue with that motivation, the system’s many detractors complain that in making an attempt to do the proper factor, V.A.R. is robbing the recreation of a few of its spontaneity. Penalty choices now routinely take a number of minutes to substantiate as performs are scrutinized once more and once more. Goals are dominated out and then given. Sometimes that leaves gamers ready, and ready, for affirmation that one thing is definitely price celebrating.
Not everybody, although, minds the wait. A couple of minutes earlier than Smith’s delayed-gratification aim in opposition to Vietnam, the United States had been awarded a penalty kick when the match referee, once more utilizing video assessment, overruled her preliminary determination {that a} foul in opposition to Trinity Rodman didn’t benefit a visit to the penalty spot.
United States Coach Vlatko Andonovski mentioned he would by no means complain about the wait to get a name appropriate.
“With all the cameras, with V.A.R., with all the angles that the referees are reviewing, I’m sure that they’re calling the right call,” he mentioned.
The upside for van der Gragt on Sunday? She obtained to have a good time the recreation’s solely aim twice.
Despite a profitable run in worldwide play over the previous few years, France has been in turmoil behind the scenes. In March, the French federation fired its longtime coach, Corinne Diacre, after gamers complained of an unhealthy setting on the group.
Hervé Renard, a well-traveled coach however one who had by no means led a girls’s group, has labored to regular the ship.
But Jamaica, a group enjoying in its second World Cup, stifled that run on Sunday, incomes its first ever level in the standings with an unlikely draw in opposition to France, 0-0. Jamaica had to make use of crowdfunding web sites to lift cash for the group’s journey to Australia and New Zealand, and misplaced all three of its video games in the group stage in 2019.
The first 4 days of the World Cup have produced a string of curiously slim rating strains for a few of the event favorites. A scoreless tie for Canada. A 1-0 win for England, the European champion, in opposition to the World Cup newcomer Haiti. The United States’ 3-0 victory over Vietnam.
Sunday introduced the prospect of the event’s first true shocker. And then identical to that, it was gone.
The scare got here courtesy of South Africa, and striker Hildah Magaia, who bundled a rebound into Sweden’s aim three minutes into the second half to offer her group a shocking 1-0 lead in opposition to Sweden, the world’s third-ranked group. The South African gamers might hardly imagine their luck, and have been quickly celebrating with a dance. Their teaching employees poured off the bench and then dissolved right into a collection of bear hugs.
But then Sweden stormed again. Fridolina Rolfo tied rating with a aim at the again submit in the sixty fifth minute, and defender Amanda Ilestedt obtained the winner with a header off a nook kick in the ninetieth.
Much was made earlier than the World Cup of the potential hole between the eight first-time entrants and the conventional powers. The first week has proven the expertise hole may not be as yawning as some assume.
To a small subset of devoted soccer followers, Sophia Smith’s aim celebration throughout the United States’ 3-0 victory in opposition to Vietnam would have seemed acquainted.
After her second aim in the U.S. group’s 3-0 victory over Vietnam, Smith ran her fingers throughout her lips to zip them and then threw away an imaginary key. It was the similar aim celebration her good good friend and former Stanford teammate Katie Meyer used throughout a penalty shootout at the 2019 N.C.A.A. championship recreation. The gesture by Meyer, Stanford’s goalkeeper and group captain, quickly went viral.
When Stanford gained the penalty shootout that day, Smith ran to Meyer and leaped onto her, inflicting them each to tumble to the floor.
Just over two years later, in March 2022, Meyer was discovered lifeless in her dorm room just a few months earlier than commencement. She had killed herself.
“That was for Katie,” Smith mentioned after the Vietnam recreation, explaining that she and one other former Stanford participant on the U.S. group, Naomi Girma, had deliberate the aim celebration in the days main as much as the World Cup. Both have devoted this event to Meyer.
In Meyer’s reminiscence, Smith and Girma additionally launched a psychological well being care initiative with the nonprofit Common Goal that included filming a public service announcement with a number of of their U.S. teammates. “We just want to honor her in every way,” Smith mentioned.
Vulnerability is an indication of energy, not weak spot. My teammates and I are decided to verify everybody has the assist they want.
Launching the first psychological well being initiative of its form with my pals at @CommonGoalOrg.
This one’s for you Katie ❤️ pic.twitter.com/AoGLUcxeMU
— Naomi Girma (@naomi_girma) July 18, 2023
Smith mentioned Meyer’s dying “changed everything” about her life. It has helped her worth her friendships extra, she mentioned, and put different points into perspective.
“Now I don’t take things too seriously,” mentioned Smith, who left Stanford two years early to play professionally. “I realized that there’s so many more important things happening and the little things that stress me out take a toll on me.”
France arrived in Australia as a World Cup favourite on the mend. Torn aside by bitter feuds, it has in current months misplaced gamers, welcomed them again, and then misplaced them once more. It has modified coaches, modified approaches and modified techniques. And now it has requested Hervé Renard, a revered 54-year-old with a adorned males’s World Cup résumé however no earlier expertise teaching girls, to hold it a minimum of so far as the semifinals.
He began the course of, he mentioned, by being open about what he didn’t know.
“For me everything was new because I didn’t know women’s football, how to manage the girls,” he mentioned. “I was lucky because on our staff a lot of people were already working with women’s football. So I was listening.”
The Women’s World Cup’s latest aim celebration is delayed gratification.
The newest participant to hitch the membership was Stefanie van der Gragt of the Netherlands, who scored her group’s solely aim in a 1-0 victory in opposition to Portugal on Sunday, had it dominated out instantly for offside and then, three lengthy minutes later, had it reinstated after a video assessment.
“It’s always difficult to wait,” van der Gragt mentioned. “But it doesn’t matter: We win, and that’s what is important.”
Van der Gragt’s transient emotional roller-coaster has been echoed in different video games on this event. Sophia Smith of the United States skilled the similar wait a day earlier, when her second aim in opposition to Vietnam was initially disallowed and then returned to her after the officers took a re-examination.
Many occasions, the wait is price it. On Friday, Georgia Stanway of England failed to attain on a penalty kick in opposition to Haiti solely to have one other video assessment grant her a second try, which she transformed. That similar night time, the very same sequence performed out for Riko Ueki of Japan.
In every case, as with Van der Gragt’s aim for the Netherlands on Sunday, the key participant in the wait was soccer’s video assistant referee system. The system was launched a number of years in the past to not re-referee video games, however to make sure that the officers obtained all the massive calls appropriate.
While few would argue with that motivation, the system’s many detractors complain that in making an attempt to do the proper factor, V.A.R. is robbing the recreation of a few of its spontaneity. Penalty choices now routinely take a number of minutes to substantiate as performs are scrutinized once more and once more. Goals are dominated out and then given. Sometimes that leaves gamers ready, and ready, for affirmation that one thing is definitely price celebrating.
Not everybody, although, minds the wait. A couple of minutes earlier than Smith’s delayed-gratification aim in opposition to Vietnam, the United States had been awarded a penalty kick when the match referee, once more utilizing video assessment, overruled her preliminary determination {that a} foul in opposition to Trinity Rodman didn’t benefit a visit to the penalty spot.
United States Coach Vlatko Andonovski mentioned he would by no means complain about the wait to get a name appropriate.
“With all the cameras, with V.A.R., with all the angles that the referees are reviewing, I’m sure that they’re calling the right call,” he mentioned.
The upside for van der Gragt on Sunday? She obtained to have a good time the recreation’s solely aim twice.
Despite a profitable run in worldwide play over the previous few years, France has been in turmoil behind the scenes. In March, the French federation fired its longtime coach, Corinne Diacre, after gamers complained of an unhealthy setting on the group.
Hervé Renard, a well-traveled coach however one who had by no means led a girls’s group, has labored to regular the ship.
But Jamaica, a group enjoying in its second World Cup, stifled that run on Sunday, incomes its first ever level in the standings with an unlikely draw in opposition to France, 0-0. Jamaica had to make use of crowdfunding web sites to lift cash for the group’s journey to Australia and New Zealand, and misplaced all three of its video games in the group stage in 2019.
The first 4 days of the World Cup have produced a string of curiously slim rating strains for a few of the event favorites. A scoreless tie for Canada. A 1-0 win for England, the European champion, in opposition to the World Cup newcomer Haiti. The United States’ 3-0 victory over Vietnam.
Sunday introduced the prospect of the event’s first true shocker. And then identical to that, it was gone.
The scare got here courtesy of South Africa, and striker Hildah Magaia, who bundled a rebound into Sweden’s aim three minutes into the second half to offer her group a shocking 1-0 lead in opposition to Sweden, the world’s third-ranked group. The South African gamers might hardly imagine their luck, and have been quickly celebrating with a dance. Their teaching employees poured off the bench and then dissolved right into a collection of bear hugs.
But then Sweden stormed again. Fridolina Rolfo tied rating with a aim at the again submit in the sixty fifth minute, and defender Amanda Ilestedt obtained the winner with a header off a nook kick in the ninetieth.
Much was made earlier than the World Cup of the potential hole between the eight first-time entrants and the conventional powers. The first week has proven the expertise hole may not be as yawning as some assume.
To a small subset of devoted soccer followers, Sophia Smith’s aim celebration throughout the United States’ 3-0 victory in opposition to Vietnam would have seemed acquainted.
After her second aim in the U.S. group’s 3-0 victory over Vietnam, Smith ran her fingers throughout her lips to zip them and then threw away an imaginary key. It was the similar aim celebration her good good friend and former Stanford teammate Katie Meyer used throughout a penalty shootout at the 2019 N.C.A.A. championship recreation. The gesture by Meyer, Stanford’s goalkeeper and group captain, quickly went viral.
When Stanford gained the penalty shootout that day, Smith ran to Meyer and leaped onto her, inflicting them each to tumble to the floor.
Just over two years later, in March 2022, Meyer was discovered lifeless in her dorm room just a few months earlier than commencement. She had killed herself.
“That was for Katie,” Smith mentioned after the Vietnam recreation, explaining that she and one other former Stanford participant on the U.S. group, Naomi Girma, had deliberate the aim celebration in the days main as much as the World Cup. Both have devoted this event to Meyer.
In Meyer’s reminiscence, Smith and Girma additionally launched a psychological well being care initiative with the nonprofit Common Goal that included filming a public service announcement with a number of of their U.S. teammates. “We just want to honor her in every way,” Smith mentioned.
Vulnerability is an indication of energy, not weak spot. My teammates and I are decided to verify everybody has the assist they want.
Launching the first psychological well being initiative of its form with my pals at @CommonGoalOrg.
This one’s for you Katie ❤️ pic.twitter.com/AoGLUcxeMU
— Naomi Girma (@naomi_girma) July 18, 2023
Smith mentioned Meyer’s dying “changed everything” about her life. It has helped her worth her friendships extra, she mentioned, and put different points into perspective.
“Now I don’t take things too seriously,” mentioned Smith, who left Stanford two years early to play professionally. “I realized that there’s so many more important things happening and the little things that stress me out take a toll on me.”
France arrived in Australia as a World Cup favourite on the mend. Torn aside by bitter feuds, it has in current months misplaced gamers, welcomed them again, and then misplaced them once more. It has modified coaches, modified approaches and modified techniques. And now it has requested Hervé Renard, a revered 54-year-old with a adorned males’s World Cup résumé however no earlier expertise teaching girls, to hold it a minimum of so far as the semifinals.
He began the course of, he mentioned, by being open about what he didn’t know.
“For me everything was new because I didn’t know women’s football, how to manage the girls,” he mentioned. “I was lucky because on our staff a lot of people were already working with women’s football. So I was listening.”
The Women’s World Cup’s latest aim celebration is delayed gratification.
The newest participant to hitch the membership was Stefanie van der Gragt of the Netherlands, who scored her group’s solely aim in a 1-0 victory in opposition to Portugal on Sunday, had it dominated out instantly for offside and then, three lengthy minutes later, had it reinstated after a video assessment.
“It’s always difficult to wait,” van der Gragt mentioned. “But it doesn’t matter: We win, and that’s what is important.”
Van der Gragt’s transient emotional roller-coaster has been echoed in different video games on this event. Sophia Smith of the United States skilled the similar wait a day earlier, when her second aim in opposition to Vietnam was initially disallowed and then returned to her after the officers took a re-examination.
Many occasions, the wait is price it. On Friday, Georgia Stanway of England failed to attain on a penalty kick in opposition to Haiti solely to have one other video assessment grant her a second try, which she transformed. That similar night time, the very same sequence performed out for Riko Ueki of Japan.
In every case, as with Van der Gragt’s aim for the Netherlands on Sunday, the key participant in the wait was soccer’s video assistant referee system. The system was launched a number of years in the past to not re-referee video games, however to make sure that the officers obtained all the massive calls appropriate.
While few would argue with that motivation, the system’s many detractors complain that in making an attempt to do the proper factor, V.A.R. is robbing the recreation of a few of its spontaneity. Penalty choices now routinely take a number of minutes to substantiate as performs are scrutinized once more and once more. Goals are dominated out and then given. Sometimes that leaves gamers ready, and ready, for affirmation that one thing is definitely price celebrating.
Not everybody, although, minds the wait. A couple of minutes earlier than Smith’s delayed-gratification aim in opposition to Vietnam, the United States had been awarded a penalty kick when the match referee, once more utilizing video assessment, overruled her preliminary determination {that a} foul in opposition to Trinity Rodman didn’t benefit a visit to the penalty spot.
United States Coach Vlatko Andonovski mentioned he would by no means complain about the wait to get a name appropriate.
“With all the cameras, with V.A.R., with all the angles that the referees are reviewing, I’m sure that they’re calling the right call,” he mentioned.
The upside for van der Gragt on Sunday? She obtained to have a good time the recreation’s solely aim twice.
Despite a profitable run in worldwide play over the previous few years, France has been in turmoil behind the scenes. In March, the French federation fired its longtime coach, Corinne Diacre, after gamers complained of an unhealthy setting on the group.
Hervé Renard, a well-traveled coach however one who had by no means led a girls’s group, has labored to regular the ship.
But Jamaica, a group enjoying in its second World Cup, stifled that run on Sunday, incomes its first ever level in the standings with an unlikely draw in opposition to France, 0-0. Jamaica had to make use of crowdfunding web sites to lift cash for the group’s journey to Australia and New Zealand, and misplaced all three of its video games in the group stage in 2019.
The first 4 days of the World Cup have produced a string of curiously slim rating strains for a few of the event favorites. A scoreless tie for Canada. A 1-0 win for England, the European champion, in opposition to the World Cup newcomer Haiti. The United States’ 3-0 victory over Vietnam.
Sunday introduced the prospect of the event’s first true shocker. And then identical to that, it was gone.
The scare got here courtesy of South Africa, and striker Hildah Magaia, who bundled a rebound into Sweden’s aim three minutes into the second half to offer her group a shocking 1-0 lead in opposition to Sweden, the world’s third-ranked group. The South African gamers might hardly imagine their luck, and have been quickly celebrating with a dance. Their teaching employees poured off the bench and then dissolved right into a collection of bear hugs.
But then Sweden stormed again. Fridolina Rolfo tied rating with a aim at the again submit in the sixty fifth minute, and defender Amanda Ilestedt obtained the winner with a header off a nook kick in the ninetieth.
Much was made earlier than the World Cup of the potential hole between the eight first-time entrants and the conventional powers. The first week has proven the expertise hole may not be as yawning as some assume.
To a small subset of devoted soccer followers, Sophia Smith’s aim celebration throughout the United States’ 3-0 victory in opposition to Vietnam would have seemed acquainted.
After her second aim in the U.S. group’s 3-0 victory over Vietnam, Smith ran her fingers throughout her lips to zip them and then threw away an imaginary key. It was the similar aim celebration her good good friend and former Stanford teammate Katie Meyer used throughout a penalty shootout at the 2019 N.C.A.A. championship recreation. The gesture by Meyer, Stanford’s goalkeeper and group captain, quickly went viral.
When Stanford gained the penalty shootout that day, Smith ran to Meyer and leaped onto her, inflicting them each to tumble to the floor.
Just over two years later, in March 2022, Meyer was discovered lifeless in her dorm room just a few months earlier than commencement. She had killed herself.
“That was for Katie,” Smith mentioned after the Vietnam recreation, explaining that she and one other former Stanford participant on the U.S. group, Naomi Girma, had deliberate the aim celebration in the days main as much as the World Cup. Both have devoted this event to Meyer.
In Meyer’s reminiscence, Smith and Girma additionally launched a psychological well being care initiative with the nonprofit Common Goal that included filming a public service announcement with a number of of their U.S. teammates. “We just want to honor her in every way,” Smith mentioned.
Vulnerability is an indication of energy, not weak spot. My teammates and I are decided to verify everybody has the assist they want.
Launching the first psychological well being initiative of its form with my pals at @CommonGoalOrg.
This one’s for you Katie ❤️ pic.twitter.com/AoGLUcxeMU
— Naomi Girma (@naomi_girma) July 18, 2023
Smith mentioned Meyer’s dying “changed everything” about her life. It has helped her worth her friendships extra, she mentioned, and put different points into perspective.
“Now I don’t take things too seriously,” mentioned Smith, who left Stanford two years early to play professionally. “I realized that there’s so many more important things happening and the little things that stress me out take a toll on me.”
France arrived in Australia as a World Cup favourite on the mend. Torn aside by bitter feuds, it has in current months misplaced gamers, welcomed them again, and then misplaced them once more. It has modified coaches, modified approaches and modified techniques. And now it has requested Hervé Renard, a revered 54-year-old with a adorned males’s World Cup résumé however no earlier expertise teaching girls, to hold it a minimum of so far as the semifinals.
He began the course of, he mentioned, by being open about what he didn’t know.
“For me everything was new because I didn’t know women’s football, how to manage the girls,” he mentioned. “I was lucky because on our staff a lot of people were already working with women’s football. So I was listening.”
The Women’s World Cup’s latest aim celebration is delayed gratification.
The newest participant to hitch the membership was Stefanie van der Gragt of the Netherlands, who scored her group’s solely aim in a 1-0 victory in opposition to Portugal on Sunday, had it dominated out instantly for offside and then, three lengthy minutes later, had it reinstated after a video assessment.
“It’s always difficult to wait,” van der Gragt mentioned. “But it doesn’t matter: We win, and that’s what is important.”
Van der Gragt’s transient emotional roller-coaster has been echoed in different video games on this event. Sophia Smith of the United States skilled the similar wait a day earlier, when her second aim in opposition to Vietnam was initially disallowed and then returned to her after the officers took a re-examination.
Many occasions, the wait is price it. On Friday, Georgia Stanway of England failed to attain on a penalty kick in opposition to Haiti solely to have one other video assessment grant her a second try, which she transformed. That similar night time, the very same sequence performed out for Riko Ueki of Japan.
In every case, as with Van der Gragt’s aim for the Netherlands on Sunday, the key participant in the wait was soccer’s video assistant referee system. The system was launched a number of years in the past to not re-referee video games, however to make sure that the officers obtained all the massive calls appropriate.
While few would argue with that motivation, the system’s many detractors complain that in making an attempt to do the proper factor, V.A.R. is robbing the recreation of a few of its spontaneity. Penalty choices now routinely take a number of minutes to substantiate as performs are scrutinized once more and once more. Goals are dominated out and then given. Sometimes that leaves gamers ready, and ready, for affirmation that one thing is definitely price celebrating.
Not everybody, although, minds the wait. A couple of minutes earlier than Smith’s delayed-gratification aim in opposition to Vietnam, the United States had been awarded a penalty kick when the match referee, once more utilizing video assessment, overruled her preliminary determination {that a} foul in opposition to Trinity Rodman didn’t benefit a visit to the penalty spot.
United States Coach Vlatko Andonovski mentioned he would by no means complain about the wait to get a name appropriate.
“With all the cameras, with V.A.R., with all the angles that the referees are reviewing, I’m sure that they’re calling the right call,” he mentioned.
The upside for van der Gragt on Sunday? She obtained to have a good time the recreation’s solely aim twice.
Despite a profitable run in worldwide play over the previous few years, France has been in turmoil behind the scenes. In March, the French federation fired its longtime coach, Corinne Diacre, after gamers complained of an unhealthy setting on the group.
Hervé Renard, a well-traveled coach however one who had by no means led a girls’s group, has labored to regular the ship.
But Jamaica, a group enjoying in its second World Cup, stifled that run on Sunday, incomes its first ever level in the standings with an unlikely draw in opposition to France, 0-0. Jamaica had to make use of crowdfunding web sites to lift cash for the group’s journey to Australia and New Zealand, and misplaced all three of its video games in the group stage in 2019.
The first 4 days of the World Cup have produced a string of curiously slim rating strains for a few of the event favorites. A scoreless tie for Canada. A 1-0 win for England, the European champion, in opposition to the World Cup newcomer Haiti. The United States’ 3-0 victory over Vietnam.
Sunday introduced the prospect of the event’s first true shocker. And then identical to that, it was gone.
The scare got here courtesy of South Africa, and striker Hildah Magaia, who bundled a rebound into Sweden’s aim three minutes into the second half to offer her group a shocking 1-0 lead in opposition to Sweden, the world’s third-ranked group. The South African gamers might hardly imagine their luck, and have been quickly celebrating with a dance. Their teaching employees poured off the bench and then dissolved right into a collection of bear hugs.
But then Sweden stormed again. Fridolina Rolfo tied rating with a aim at the again submit in the sixty fifth minute, and defender Amanda Ilestedt obtained the winner with a header off a nook kick in the ninetieth.
Much was made earlier than the World Cup of the potential hole between the eight first-time entrants and the conventional powers. The first week has proven the expertise hole may not be as yawning as some assume.
To a small subset of devoted soccer followers, Sophia Smith’s aim celebration throughout the United States’ 3-0 victory in opposition to Vietnam would have seemed acquainted.
After her second aim in the U.S. group’s 3-0 victory over Vietnam, Smith ran her fingers throughout her lips to zip them and then threw away an imaginary key. It was the similar aim celebration her good good friend and former Stanford teammate Katie Meyer used throughout a penalty shootout at the 2019 N.C.A.A. championship recreation. The gesture by Meyer, Stanford’s goalkeeper and group captain, quickly went viral.
When Stanford gained the penalty shootout that day, Smith ran to Meyer and leaped onto her, inflicting them each to tumble to the floor.
Just over two years later, in March 2022, Meyer was discovered lifeless in her dorm room just a few months earlier than commencement. She had killed herself.
“That was for Katie,” Smith mentioned after the Vietnam recreation, explaining that she and one other former Stanford participant on the U.S. group, Naomi Girma, had deliberate the aim celebration in the days main as much as the World Cup. Both have devoted this event to Meyer.
In Meyer’s reminiscence, Smith and Girma additionally launched a psychological well being care initiative with the nonprofit Common Goal that included filming a public service announcement with a number of of their U.S. teammates. “We just want to honor her in every way,” Smith mentioned.
Vulnerability is an indication of energy, not weak spot. My teammates and I are decided to verify everybody has the assist they want.
Launching the first psychological well being initiative of its form with my pals at @CommonGoalOrg.
This one’s for you Katie ❤️ pic.twitter.com/AoGLUcxeMU
— Naomi Girma (@naomi_girma) July 18, 2023
Smith mentioned Meyer’s dying “changed everything” about her life. It has helped her worth her friendships extra, she mentioned, and put different points into perspective.
“Now I don’t take things too seriously,” mentioned Smith, who left Stanford two years early to play professionally. “I realized that there’s so many more important things happening and the little things that stress me out take a toll on me.”
France arrived in Australia as a World Cup favourite on the mend. Torn aside by bitter feuds, it has in current months misplaced gamers, welcomed them again, and then misplaced them once more. It has modified coaches, modified approaches and modified techniques. And now it has requested Hervé Renard, a revered 54-year-old with a adorned males’s World Cup résumé however no earlier expertise teaching girls, to hold it a minimum of so far as the semifinals.
He began the course of, he mentioned, by being open about what he didn’t know.
“For me everything was new because I didn’t know women’s football, how to manage the girls,” he mentioned. “I was lucky because on our staff a lot of people were already working with women’s football. So I was listening.”
The Women’s World Cup’s latest aim celebration is delayed gratification.
The newest participant to hitch the membership was Stefanie van der Gragt of the Netherlands, who scored her group’s solely aim in a 1-0 victory in opposition to Portugal on Sunday, had it dominated out instantly for offside and then, three lengthy minutes later, had it reinstated after a video assessment.
“It’s always difficult to wait,” van der Gragt mentioned. “But it doesn’t matter: We win, and that’s what is important.”
Van der Gragt’s transient emotional roller-coaster has been echoed in different video games on this event. Sophia Smith of the United States skilled the similar wait a day earlier, when her second aim in opposition to Vietnam was initially disallowed and then returned to her after the officers took a re-examination.
Many occasions, the wait is price it. On Friday, Georgia Stanway of England failed to attain on a penalty kick in opposition to Haiti solely to have one other video assessment grant her a second try, which she transformed. That similar night time, the very same sequence performed out for Riko Ueki of Japan.
In every case, as with Van der Gragt’s aim for the Netherlands on Sunday, the key participant in the wait was soccer’s video assistant referee system. The system was launched a number of years in the past to not re-referee video games, however to make sure that the officers obtained all the massive calls appropriate.
While few would argue with that motivation, the system’s many detractors complain that in making an attempt to do the proper factor, V.A.R. is robbing the recreation of a few of its spontaneity. Penalty choices now routinely take a number of minutes to substantiate as performs are scrutinized once more and once more. Goals are dominated out and then given. Sometimes that leaves gamers ready, and ready, for affirmation that one thing is definitely price celebrating.
Not everybody, although, minds the wait. A couple of minutes earlier than Smith’s delayed-gratification aim in opposition to Vietnam, the United States had been awarded a penalty kick when the match referee, once more utilizing video assessment, overruled her preliminary determination {that a} foul in opposition to Trinity Rodman didn’t benefit a visit to the penalty spot.
United States Coach Vlatko Andonovski mentioned he would by no means complain about the wait to get a name appropriate.
“With all the cameras, with V.A.R., with all the angles that the referees are reviewing, I’m sure that they’re calling the right call,” he mentioned.
The upside for van der Gragt on Sunday? She obtained to have a good time the recreation’s solely aim twice.
Despite a profitable run in worldwide play over the previous few years, France has been in turmoil behind the scenes. In March, the French federation fired its longtime coach, Corinne Diacre, after gamers complained of an unhealthy setting on the group.
Hervé Renard, a well-traveled coach however one who had by no means led a girls’s group, has labored to regular the ship.
But Jamaica, a group enjoying in its second World Cup, stifled that run on Sunday, incomes its first ever level in the standings with an unlikely draw in opposition to France, 0-0. Jamaica had to make use of crowdfunding web sites to lift cash for the group’s journey to Australia and New Zealand, and misplaced all three of its video games in the group stage in 2019.
The first 4 days of the World Cup have produced a string of curiously slim rating strains for a few of the event favorites. A scoreless tie for Canada. A 1-0 win for England, the European champion, in opposition to the World Cup newcomer Haiti. The United States’ 3-0 victory over Vietnam.
Sunday introduced the prospect of the event’s first true shocker. And then identical to that, it was gone.
The scare got here courtesy of South Africa, and striker Hildah Magaia, who bundled a rebound into Sweden’s aim three minutes into the second half to offer her group a shocking 1-0 lead in opposition to Sweden, the world’s third-ranked group. The South African gamers might hardly imagine their luck, and have been quickly celebrating with a dance. Their teaching employees poured off the bench and then dissolved right into a collection of bear hugs.
But then Sweden stormed again. Fridolina Rolfo tied rating with a aim at the again submit in the sixty fifth minute, and defender Amanda Ilestedt obtained the winner with a header off a nook kick in the ninetieth.
Much was made earlier than the World Cup of the potential hole between the eight first-time entrants and the conventional powers. The first week has proven the expertise hole may not be as yawning as some assume.
To a small subset of devoted soccer followers, Sophia Smith’s aim celebration throughout the United States’ 3-0 victory in opposition to Vietnam would have seemed acquainted.
After her second aim in the U.S. group’s 3-0 victory over Vietnam, Smith ran her fingers throughout her lips to zip them and then threw away an imaginary key. It was the similar aim celebration her good good friend and former Stanford teammate Katie Meyer used throughout a penalty shootout at the 2019 N.C.A.A. championship recreation. The gesture by Meyer, Stanford’s goalkeeper and group captain, quickly went viral.
When Stanford gained the penalty shootout that day, Smith ran to Meyer and leaped onto her, inflicting them each to tumble to the floor.
Just over two years later, in March 2022, Meyer was discovered lifeless in her dorm room just a few months earlier than commencement. She had killed herself.
“That was for Katie,” Smith mentioned after the Vietnam recreation, explaining that she and one other former Stanford participant on the U.S. group, Naomi Girma, had deliberate the aim celebration in the days main as much as the World Cup. Both have devoted this event to Meyer.
In Meyer’s reminiscence, Smith and Girma additionally launched a psychological well being care initiative with the nonprofit Common Goal that included filming a public service announcement with a number of of their U.S. teammates. “We just want to honor her in every way,” Smith mentioned.
Vulnerability is an indication of energy, not weak spot. My teammates and I are decided to verify everybody has the assist they want.
Launching the first psychological well being initiative of its form with my pals at @CommonGoalOrg.
This one’s for you Katie ❤️ pic.twitter.com/AoGLUcxeMU
— Naomi Girma (@naomi_girma) July 18, 2023
Smith mentioned Meyer’s dying “changed everything” about her life. It has helped her worth her friendships extra, she mentioned, and put different points into perspective.
“Now I don’t take things too seriously,” mentioned Smith, who left Stanford two years early to play professionally. “I realized that there’s so many more important things happening and the little things that stress me out take a toll on me.”
France arrived in Australia as a World Cup favourite on the mend. Torn aside by bitter feuds, it has in current months misplaced gamers, welcomed them again, and then misplaced them once more. It has modified coaches, modified approaches and modified techniques. And now it has requested Hervé Renard, a revered 54-year-old with a adorned males’s World Cup résumé however no earlier expertise teaching girls, to hold it a minimum of so far as the semifinals.
He began the course of, he mentioned, by being open about what he didn’t know.
“For me everything was new because I didn’t know women’s football, how to manage the girls,” he mentioned. “I was lucky because on our staff a lot of people were already working with women’s football. So I was listening.”
The Women’s World Cup’s latest aim celebration is delayed gratification.
The newest participant to hitch the membership was Stefanie van der Gragt of the Netherlands, who scored her group’s solely aim in a 1-0 victory in opposition to Portugal on Sunday, had it dominated out instantly for offside and then, three lengthy minutes later, had it reinstated after a video assessment.
“It’s always difficult to wait,” van der Gragt mentioned. “But it doesn’t matter: We win, and that’s what is important.”
Van der Gragt’s transient emotional roller-coaster has been echoed in different video games on this event. Sophia Smith of the United States skilled the similar wait a day earlier, when her second aim in opposition to Vietnam was initially disallowed and then returned to her after the officers took a re-examination.
Many occasions, the wait is price it. On Friday, Georgia Stanway of England failed to attain on a penalty kick in opposition to Haiti solely to have one other video assessment grant her a second try, which she transformed. That similar night time, the very same sequence performed out for Riko Ueki of Japan.
In every case, as with Van der Gragt’s aim for the Netherlands on Sunday, the key participant in the wait was soccer’s video assistant referee system. The system was launched a number of years in the past to not re-referee video games, however to make sure that the officers obtained all the massive calls appropriate.
While few would argue with that motivation, the system’s many detractors complain that in making an attempt to do the proper factor, V.A.R. is robbing the recreation of a few of its spontaneity. Penalty choices now routinely take a number of minutes to substantiate as performs are scrutinized once more and once more. Goals are dominated out and then given. Sometimes that leaves gamers ready, and ready, for affirmation that one thing is definitely price celebrating.
Not everybody, although, minds the wait. A couple of minutes earlier than Smith’s delayed-gratification aim in opposition to Vietnam, the United States had been awarded a penalty kick when the match referee, once more utilizing video assessment, overruled her preliminary determination {that a} foul in opposition to Trinity Rodman didn’t benefit a visit to the penalty spot.
United States Coach Vlatko Andonovski mentioned he would by no means complain about the wait to get a name appropriate.
“With all the cameras, with V.A.R., with all the angles that the referees are reviewing, I’m sure that they’re calling the right call,” he mentioned.
The upside for van der Gragt on Sunday? She obtained to have a good time the recreation’s solely aim twice.
Despite a profitable run in worldwide play over the previous few years, France has been in turmoil behind the scenes. In March, the French federation fired its longtime coach, Corinne Diacre, after gamers complained of an unhealthy setting on the group.
Hervé Renard, a well-traveled coach however one who had by no means led a girls’s group, has labored to regular the ship.
But Jamaica, a group enjoying in its second World Cup, stifled that run on Sunday, incomes its first ever level in the standings with an unlikely draw in opposition to France, 0-0. Jamaica had to make use of crowdfunding web sites to lift cash for the group’s journey to Australia and New Zealand, and misplaced all three of its video games in the group stage in 2019.
The first 4 days of the World Cup have produced a string of curiously slim rating strains for a few of the event favorites. A scoreless tie for Canada. A 1-0 win for England, the European champion, in opposition to the World Cup newcomer Haiti. The United States’ 3-0 victory over Vietnam.
Sunday introduced the prospect of the event’s first true shocker. And then identical to that, it was gone.
The scare got here courtesy of South Africa, and striker Hildah Magaia, who bundled a rebound into Sweden’s aim three minutes into the second half to offer her group a shocking 1-0 lead in opposition to Sweden, the world’s third-ranked group. The South African gamers might hardly imagine their luck, and have been quickly celebrating with a dance. Their teaching employees poured off the bench and then dissolved right into a collection of bear hugs.
But then Sweden stormed again. Fridolina Rolfo tied rating with a aim at the again submit in the sixty fifth minute, and defender Amanda Ilestedt obtained the winner with a header off a nook kick in the ninetieth.
Much was made earlier than the World Cup of the potential hole between the eight first-time entrants and the conventional powers. The first week has proven the expertise hole may not be as yawning as some assume.
To a small subset of devoted soccer followers, Sophia Smith’s aim celebration throughout the United States’ 3-0 victory in opposition to Vietnam would have seemed acquainted.
After her second aim in the U.S. group’s 3-0 victory over Vietnam, Smith ran her fingers throughout her lips to zip them and then threw away an imaginary key. It was the similar aim celebration her good good friend and former Stanford teammate Katie Meyer used throughout a penalty shootout at the 2019 N.C.A.A. championship recreation. The gesture by Meyer, Stanford’s goalkeeper and group captain, quickly went viral.
When Stanford gained the penalty shootout that day, Smith ran to Meyer and leaped onto her, inflicting them each to tumble to the floor.
Just over two years later, in March 2022, Meyer was discovered lifeless in her dorm room just a few months earlier than commencement. She had killed herself.
“That was for Katie,” Smith mentioned after the Vietnam recreation, explaining that she and one other former Stanford participant on the U.S. group, Naomi Girma, had deliberate the aim celebration in the days main as much as the World Cup. Both have devoted this event to Meyer.
In Meyer’s reminiscence, Smith and Girma additionally launched a psychological well being care initiative with the nonprofit Common Goal that included filming a public service announcement with a number of of their U.S. teammates. “We just want to honor her in every way,” Smith mentioned.
Vulnerability is an indication of energy, not weak spot. My teammates and I are decided to verify everybody has the assist they want.
Launching the first psychological well being initiative of its form with my pals at @CommonGoalOrg.
This one’s for you Katie ❤️ pic.twitter.com/AoGLUcxeMU
— Naomi Girma (@naomi_girma) July 18, 2023
Smith mentioned Meyer’s dying “changed everything” about her life. It has helped her worth her friendships extra, she mentioned, and put different points into perspective.
“Now I don’t take things too seriously,” mentioned Smith, who left Stanford two years early to play professionally. “I realized that there’s so many more important things happening and the little things that stress me out take a toll on me.”
France arrived in Australia as a World Cup favourite on the mend. Torn aside by bitter feuds, it has in current months misplaced gamers, welcomed them again, and then misplaced them once more. It has modified coaches, modified approaches and modified techniques. And now it has requested Hervé Renard, a revered 54-year-old with a adorned males’s World Cup résumé however no earlier expertise teaching girls, to hold it a minimum of so far as the semifinals.
He began the course of, he mentioned, by being open about what he didn’t know.
“For me everything was new because I didn’t know women’s football, how to manage the girls,” he mentioned. “I was lucky because on our staff a lot of people were already working with women’s football. So I was listening.”
The Women’s World Cup’s latest aim celebration is delayed gratification.
The newest participant to hitch the membership was Stefanie van der Gragt of the Netherlands, who scored her group’s solely aim in a 1-0 victory in opposition to Portugal on Sunday, had it dominated out instantly for offside and then, three lengthy minutes later, had it reinstated after a video assessment.
“It’s always difficult to wait,” van der Gragt mentioned. “But it doesn’t matter: We win, and that’s what is important.”
Van der Gragt’s transient emotional roller-coaster has been echoed in different video games on this event. Sophia Smith of the United States skilled the similar wait a day earlier, when her second aim in opposition to Vietnam was initially disallowed and then returned to her after the officers took a re-examination.
Many occasions, the wait is price it. On Friday, Georgia Stanway of England failed to attain on a penalty kick in opposition to Haiti solely to have one other video assessment grant her a second try, which she transformed. That similar night time, the very same sequence performed out for Riko Ueki of Japan.
In every case, as with Van der Gragt’s aim for the Netherlands on Sunday, the key participant in the wait was soccer’s video assistant referee system. The system was launched a number of years in the past to not re-referee video games, however to make sure that the officers obtained all the massive calls appropriate.
While few would argue with that motivation, the system’s many detractors complain that in making an attempt to do the proper factor, V.A.R. is robbing the recreation of a few of its spontaneity. Penalty choices now routinely take a number of minutes to substantiate as performs are scrutinized once more and once more. Goals are dominated out and then given. Sometimes that leaves gamers ready, and ready, for affirmation that one thing is definitely price celebrating.
Not everybody, although, minds the wait. A couple of minutes earlier than Smith’s delayed-gratification aim in opposition to Vietnam, the United States had been awarded a penalty kick when the match referee, once more utilizing video assessment, overruled her preliminary determination {that a} foul in opposition to Trinity Rodman didn’t benefit a visit to the penalty spot.
United States Coach Vlatko Andonovski mentioned he would by no means complain about the wait to get a name appropriate.
“With all the cameras, with V.A.R., with all the angles that the referees are reviewing, I’m sure that they’re calling the right call,” he mentioned.
The upside for van der Gragt on Sunday? She obtained to have a good time the recreation’s solely aim twice.
Despite a profitable run in worldwide play over the previous few years, France has been in turmoil behind the scenes. In March, the French federation fired its longtime coach, Corinne Diacre, after gamers complained of an unhealthy setting on the group.
Hervé Renard, a well-traveled coach however one who had by no means led a girls’s group, has labored to regular the ship.
But Jamaica, a group enjoying in its second World Cup, stifled that run on Sunday, incomes its first ever level in the standings with an unlikely draw in opposition to France, 0-0. Jamaica had to make use of crowdfunding web sites to lift cash for the group’s journey to Australia and New Zealand, and misplaced all three of its video games in the group stage in 2019.
The first 4 days of the World Cup have produced a string of curiously slim rating strains for a few of the event favorites. A scoreless tie for Canada. A 1-0 win for England, the European champion, in opposition to the World Cup newcomer Haiti. The United States’ 3-0 victory over Vietnam.
Sunday introduced the prospect of the event’s first true shocker. And then identical to that, it was gone.
The scare got here courtesy of South Africa, and striker Hildah Magaia, who bundled a rebound into Sweden’s aim three minutes into the second half to offer her group a shocking 1-0 lead in opposition to Sweden, the world’s third-ranked group. The South African gamers might hardly imagine their luck, and have been quickly celebrating with a dance. Their teaching employees poured off the bench and then dissolved right into a collection of bear hugs.
But then Sweden stormed again. Fridolina Rolfo tied rating with a aim at the again submit in the sixty fifth minute, and defender Amanda Ilestedt obtained the winner with a header off a nook kick in the ninetieth.
Much was made earlier than the World Cup of the potential hole between the eight first-time entrants and the conventional powers. The first week has proven the expertise hole may not be as yawning as some assume.
To a small subset of devoted soccer followers, Sophia Smith’s aim celebration throughout the United States’ 3-0 victory in opposition to Vietnam would have seemed acquainted.
After her second aim in the U.S. group’s 3-0 victory over Vietnam, Smith ran her fingers throughout her lips to zip them and then threw away an imaginary key. It was the similar aim celebration her good good friend and former Stanford teammate Katie Meyer used throughout a penalty shootout at the 2019 N.C.A.A. championship recreation. The gesture by Meyer, Stanford’s goalkeeper and group captain, quickly went viral.
When Stanford gained the penalty shootout that day, Smith ran to Meyer and leaped onto her, inflicting them each to tumble to the floor.
Just over two years later, in March 2022, Meyer was discovered lifeless in her dorm room just a few months earlier than commencement. She had killed herself.
“That was for Katie,” Smith mentioned after the Vietnam recreation, explaining that she and one other former Stanford participant on the U.S. group, Naomi Girma, had deliberate the aim celebration in the days main as much as the World Cup. Both have devoted this event to Meyer.
In Meyer’s reminiscence, Smith and Girma additionally launched a psychological well being care initiative with the nonprofit Common Goal that included filming a public service announcement with a number of of their U.S. teammates. “We just want to honor her in every way,” Smith mentioned.
Vulnerability is an indication of energy, not weak spot. My teammates and I are decided to verify everybody has the assist they want.
Launching the first psychological well being initiative of its form with my pals at @CommonGoalOrg.
This one’s for you Katie ❤️ pic.twitter.com/AoGLUcxeMU
— Naomi Girma (@naomi_girma) July 18, 2023
Smith mentioned Meyer’s dying “changed everything” about her life. It has helped her worth her friendships extra, she mentioned, and put different points into perspective.
“Now I don’t take things too seriously,” mentioned Smith, who left Stanford two years early to play professionally. “I realized that there’s so many more important things happening and the little things that stress me out take a toll on me.”
France arrived in Australia as a World Cup favourite on the mend. Torn aside by bitter feuds, it has in current months misplaced gamers, welcomed them again, and then misplaced them once more. It has modified coaches, modified approaches and modified techniques. And now it has requested Hervé Renard, a revered 54-year-old with a adorned males’s World Cup résumé however no earlier expertise teaching girls, to hold it a minimum of so far as the semifinals.
He began the course of, he mentioned, by being open about what he didn’t know.
“For me everything was new because I didn’t know women’s football, how to manage the girls,” he mentioned. “I was lucky because on our staff a lot of people were already working with women’s football. So I was listening.”
The Women’s World Cup’s latest aim celebration is delayed gratification.
The newest participant to hitch the membership was Stefanie van der Gragt of the Netherlands, who scored her group’s solely aim in a 1-0 victory in opposition to Portugal on Sunday, had it dominated out instantly for offside and then, three lengthy minutes later, had it reinstated after a video assessment.
“It’s always difficult to wait,” van der Gragt mentioned. “But it doesn’t matter: We win, and that’s what is important.”
Van der Gragt’s transient emotional roller-coaster has been echoed in different video games on this event. Sophia Smith of the United States skilled the similar wait a day earlier, when her second aim in opposition to Vietnam was initially disallowed and then returned to her after the officers took a re-examination.
Many occasions, the wait is price it. On Friday, Georgia Stanway of England failed to attain on a penalty kick in opposition to Haiti solely to have one other video assessment grant her a second try, which she transformed. That similar night time, the very same sequence performed out for Riko Ueki of Japan.
In every case, as with Van der Gragt’s aim for the Netherlands on Sunday, the key participant in the wait was soccer’s video assistant referee system. The system was launched a number of years in the past to not re-referee video games, however to make sure that the officers obtained all the massive calls appropriate.
While few would argue with that motivation, the system’s many detractors complain that in making an attempt to do the proper factor, V.A.R. is robbing the recreation of a few of its spontaneity. Penalty choices now routinely take a number of minutes to substantiate as performs are scrutinized once more and once more. Goals are dominated out and then given. Sometimes that leaves gamers ready, and ready, for affirmation that one thing is definitely price celebrating.
Not everybody, although, minds the wait. A couple of minutes earlier than Smith’s delayed-gratification aim in opposition to Vietnam, the United States had been awarded a penalty kick when the match referee, once more utilizing video assessment, overruled her preliminary determination {that a} foul in opposition to Trinity Rodman didn’t benefit a visit to the penalty spot.
United States Coach Vlatko Andonovski mentioned he would by no means complain about the wait to get a name appropriate.
“With all the cameras, with V.A.R., with all the angles that the referees are reviewing, I’m sure that they’re calling the right call,” he mentioned.
The upside for van der Gragt on Sunday? She obtained to have a good time the recreation’s solely aim twice.
Despite a profitable run in worldwide play over the previous few years, France has been in turmoil behind the scenes. In March, the French federation fired its longtime coach, Corinne Diacre, after gamers complained of an unhealthy setting on the group.
Hervé Renard, a well-traveled coach however one who had by no means led a girls’s group, has labored to regular the ship.
But Jamaica, a group enjoying in its second World Cup, stifled that run on Sunday, incomes its first ever level in the standings with an unlikely draw in opposition to France, 0-0. Jamaica had to make use of crowdfunding web sites to lift cash for the group’s journey to Australia and New Zealand, and misplaced all three of its video games in the group stage in 2019.
The first 4 days of the World Cup have produced a string of curiously slim rating strains for a few of the event favorites. A scoreless tie for Canada. A 1-0 win for England, the European champion, in opposition to the World Cup newcomer Haiti. The United States’ 3-0 victory over Vietnam.
Sunday introduced the prospect of the event’s first true shocker. And then identical to that, it was gone.
The scare got here courtesy of South Africa, and striker Hildah Magaia, who bundled a rebound into Sweden’s aim three minutes into the second half to offer her group a shocking 1-0 lead in opposition to Sweden, the world’s third-ranked group. The South African gamers might hardly imagine their luck, and have been quickly celebrating with a dance. Their teaching employees poured off the bench and then dissolved right into a collection of bear hugs.
But then Sweden stormed again. Fridolina Rolfo tied rating with a aim at the again submit in the sixty fifth minute, and defender Amanda Ilestedt obtained the winner with a header off a nook kick in the ninetieth.
Much was made earlier than the World Cup of the potential hole between the eight first-time entrants and the conventional powers. The first week has proven the expertise hole may not be as yawning as some assume.
To a small subset of devoted soccer followers, Sophia Smith’s aim celebration throughout the United States’ 3-0 victory in opposition to Vietnam would have seemed acquainted.
After her second aim in the U.S. group’s 3-0 victory over Vietnam, Smith ran her fingers throughout her lips to zip them and then threw away an imaginary key. It was the similar aim celebration her good good friend and former Stanford teammate Katie Meyer used throughout a penalty shootout at the 2019 N.C.A.A. championship recreation. The gesture by Meyer, Stanford’s goalkeeper and group captain, quickly went viral.
When Stanford gained the penalty shootout that day, Smith ran to Meyer and leaped onto her, inflicting them each to tumble to the floor.
Just over two years later, in March 2022, Meyer was discovered lifeless in her dorm room just a few months earlier than commencement. She had killed herself.
“That was for Katie,” Smith mentioned after the Vietnam recreation, explaining that she and one other former Stanford participant on the U.S. group, Naomi Girma, had deliberate the aim celebration in the days main as much as the World Cup. Both have devoted this event to Meyer.
In Meyer’s reminiscence, Smith and Girma additionally launched a psychological well being care initiative with the nonprofit Common Goal that included filming a public service announcement with a number of of their U.S. teammates. “We just want to honor her in every way,” Smith mentioned.
Vulnerability is an indication of energy, not weak spot. My teammates and I are decided to verify everybody has the assist they want.
Launching the first psychological well being initiative of its form with my pals at @CommonGoalOrg.
This one’s for you Katie ❤️ pic.twitter.com/AoGLUcxeMU
— Naomi Girma (@naomi_girma) July 18, 2023
Smith mentioned Meyer’s dying “changed everything” about her life. It has helped her worth her friendships extra, she mentioned, and put different points into perspective.
“Now I don’t take things too seriously,” mentioned Smith, who left Stanford two years early to play professionally. “I realized that there’s so many more important things happening and the little things that stress me out take a toll on me.”
France arrived in Australia as a World Cup favourite on the mend. Torn aside by bitter feuds, it has in current months misplaced gamers, welcomed them again, and then misplaced them once more. It has modified coaches, modified approaches and modified techniques. And now it has requested Hervé Renard, a revered 54-year-old with a adorned males’s World Cup résumé however no earlier expertise teaching girls, to hold it a minimum of so far as the semifinals.
He began the course of, he mentioned, by being open about what he didn’t know.
“For me everything was new because I didn’t know women’s football, how to manage the girls,” he mentioned. “I was lucky because on our staff a lot of people were already working with women’s football. So I was listening.”
The Women’s World Cup’s latest aim celebration is delayed gratification.
The newest participant to hitch the membership was Stefanie van der Gragt of the Netherlands, who scored her group’s solely aim in a 1-0 victory in opposition to Portugal on Sunday, had it dominated out instantly for offside and then, three lengthy minutes later, had it reinstated after a video assessment.
“It’s always difficult to wait,” van der Gragt mentioned. “But it doesn’t matter: We win, and that’s what is important.”
Van der Gragt’s transient emotional roller-coaster has been echoed in different video games on this event. Sophia Smith of the United States skilled the similar wait a day earlier, when her second aim in opposition to Vietnam was initially disallowed and then returned to her after the officers took a re-examination.
Many occasions, the wait is price it. On Friday, Georgia Stanway of England failed to attain on a penalty kick in opposition to Haiti solely to have one other video assessment grant her a second try, which she transformed. That similar night time, the very same sequence performed out for Riko Ueki of Japan.
In every case, as with Van der Gragt’s aim for the Netherlands on Sunday, the key participant in the wait was soccer’s video assistant referee system. The system was launched a number of years in the past to not re-referee video games, however to make sure that the officers obtained all the massive calls appropriate.
While few would argue with that motivation, the system’s many detractors complain that in making an attempt to do the proper factor, V.A.R. is robbing the recreation of a few of its spontaneity. Penalty choices now routinely take a number of minutes to substantiate as performs are scrutinized once more and once more. Goals are dominated out and then given. Sometimes that leaves gamers ready, and ready, for affirmation that one thing is definitely price celebrating.
Not everybody, although, minds the wait. A couple of minutes earlier than Smith’s delayed-gratification aim in opposition to Vietnam, the United States had been awarded a penalty kick when the match referee, once more utilizing video assessment, overruled her preliminary determination {that a} foul in opposition to Trinity Rodman didn’t benefit a visit to the penalty spot.
United States Coach Vlatko Andonovski mentioned he would by no means complain about the wait to get a name appropriate.
“With all the cameras, with V.A.R., with all the angles that the referees are reviewing, I’m sure that they’re calling the right call,” he mentioned.
The upside for van der Gragt on Sunday? She obtained to have a good time the recreation’s solely aim twice.
Despite a profitable run in worldwide play over the previous few years, France has been in turmoil behind the scenes. In March, the French federation fired its longtime coach, Corinne Diacre, after gamers complained of an unhealthy setting on the group.
Hervé Renard, a well-traveled coach however one who had by no means led a girls’s group, has labored to regular the ship.
But Jamaica, a group enjoying in its second World Cup, stifled that run on Sunday, incomes its first ever level in the standings with an unlikely draw in opposition to France, 0-0. Jamaica had to make use of crowdfunding web sites to lift cash for the group’s journey to Australia and New Zealand, and misplaced all three of its video games in the group stage in 2019.
The first 4 days of the World Cup have produced a string of curiously slim rating strains for a few of the event favorites. A scoreless tie for Canada. A 1-0 win for England, the European champion, in opposition to the World Cup newcomer Haiti. The United States’ 3-0 victory over Vietnam.
Sunday introduced the prospect of the event’s first true shocker. And then identical to that, it was gone.
The scare got here courtesy of South Africa, and striker Hildah Magaia, who bundled a rebound into Sweden’s aim three minutes into the second half to offer her group a shocking 1-0 lead in opposition to Sweden, the world’s third-ranked group. The South African gamers might hardly imagine their luck, and have been quickly celebrating with a dance. Their teaching employees poured off the bench and then dissolved right into a collection of bear hugs.
But then Sweden stormed again. Fridolina Rolfo tied rating with a aim at the again submit in the sixty fifth minute, and defender Amanda Ilestedt obtained the winner with a header off a nook kick in the ninetieth.
Much was made earlier than the World Cup of the potential hole between the eight first-time entrants and the conventional powers. The first week has proven the expertise hole may not be as yawning as some assume.
To a small subset of devoted soccer followers, Sophia Smith’s aim celebration throughout the United States’ 3-0 victory in opposition to Vietnam would have seemed acquainted.
After her second aim in the U.S. group’s 3-0 victory over Vietnam, Smith ran her fingers throughout her lips to zip them and then threw away an imaginary key. It was the similar aim celebration her good good friend and former Stanford teammate Katie Meyer used throughout a penalty shootout at the 2019 N.C.A.A. championship recreation. The gesture by Meyer, Stanford’s goalkeeper and group captain, quickly went viral.
When Stanford gained the penalty shootout that day, Smith ran to Meyer and leaped onto her, inflicting them each to tumble to the floor.
Just over two years later, in March 2022, Meyer was discovered lifeless in her dorm room just a few months earlier than commencement. She had killed herself.
“That was for Katie,” Smith mentioned after the Vietnam recreation, explaining that she and one other former Stanford participant on the U.S. group, Naomi Girma, had deliberate the aim celebration in the days main as much as the World Cup. Both have devoted this event to Meyer.
In Meyer’s reminiscence, Smith and Girma additionally launched a psychological well being care initiative with the nonprofit Common Goal that included filming a public service announcement with a number of of their U.S. teammates. “We just want to honor her in every way,” Smith mentioned.
Vulnerability is an indication of energy, not weak spot. My teammates and I are decided to verify everybody has the assist they want.
Launching the first psychological well being initiative of its form with my pals at @CommonGoalOrg.
This one’s for you Katie ❤️ pic.twitter.com/AoGLUcxeMU
— Naomi Girma (@naomi_girma) July 18, 2023
Smith mentioned Meyer’s dying “changed everything” about her life. It has helped her worth her friendships extra, she mentioned, and put different points into perspective.
“Now I don’t take things too seriously,” mentioned Smith, who left Stanford two years early to play professionally. “I realized that there’s so many more important things happening and the little things that stress me out take a toll on me.”
France arrived in Australia as a World Cup favourite on the mend. Torn aside by bitter feuds, it has in current months misplaced gamers, welcomed them again, and then misplaced them once more. It has modified coaches, modified approaches and modified techniques. And now it has requested Hervé Renard, a revered 54-year-old with a adorned males’s World Cup résumé however no earlier expertise teaching girls, to hold it a minimum of so far as the semifinals.
He began the course of, he mentioned, by being open about what he didn’t know.
“For me everything was new because I didn’t know women’s football, how to manage the girls,” he mentioned. “I was lucky because on our staff a lot of people were already working with women’s football. So I was listening.”
The Women’s World Cup’s latest aim celebration is delayed gratification.
The newest participant to hitch the membership was Stefanie van der Gragt of the Netherlands, who scored her group’s solely aim in a 1-0 victory in opposition to Portugal on Sunday, had it dominated out instantly for offside and then, three lengthy minutes later, had it reinstated after a video assessment.
“It’s always difficult to wait,” van der Gragt mentioned. “But it doesn’t matter: We win, and that’s what is important.”
Van der Gragt’s transient emotional roller-coaster has been echoed in different video games on this event. Sophia Smith of the United States skilled the similar wait a day earlier, when her second aim in opposition to Vietnam was initially disallowed and then returned to her after the officers took a re-examination.
Many occasions, the wait is price it. On Friday, Georgia Stanway of England failed to attain on a penalty kick in opposition to Haiti solely to have one other video assessment grant her a second try, which she transformed. That similar night time, the very same sequence performed out for Riko Ueki of Japan.
In every case, as with Van der Gragt’s aim for the Netherlands on Sunday, the key participant in the wait was soccer’s video assistant referee system. The system was launched a number of years in the past to not re-referee video games, however to make sure that the officers obtained all the massive calls appropriate.
While few would argue with that motivation, the system’s many detractors complain that in making an attempt to do the proper factor, V.A.R. is robbing the recreation of a few of its spontaneity. Penalty choices now routinely take a number of minutes to substantiate as performs are scrutinized once more and once more. Goals are dominated out and then given. Sometimes that leaves gamers ready, and ready, for affirmation that one thing is definitely price celebrating.
Not everybody, although, minds the wait. A couple of minutes earlier than Smith’s delayed-gratification aim in opposition to Vietnam, the United States had been awarded a penalty kick when the match referee, once more utilizing video assessment, overruled her preliminary determination {that a} foul in opposition to Trinity Rodman didn’t benefit a visit to the penalty spot.
United States Coach Vlatko Andonovski mentioned he would by no means complain about the wait to get a name appropriate.
“With all the cameras, with V.A.R., with all the angles that the referees are reviewing, I’m sure that they’re calling the right call,” he mentioned.
The upside for van der Gragt on Sunday? She obtained to have a good time the recreation’s solely aim twice.
Despite a profitable run in worldwide play over the previous few years, France has been in turmoil behind the scenes. In March, the French federation fired its longtime coach, Corinne Diacre, after gamers complained of an unhealthy setting on the group.
Hervé Renard, a well-traveled coach however one who had by no means led a girls’s group, has labored to regular the ship.
But Jamaica, a group enjoying in its second World Cup, stifled that run on Sunday, incomes its first ever level in the standings with an unlikely draw in opposition to France, 0-0. Jamaica had to make use of crowdfunding web sites to lift cash for the group’s journey to Australia and New Zealand, and misplaced all three of its video games in the group stage in 2019.
The first 4 days of the World Cup have produced a string of curiously slim rating strains for a few of the event favorites. A scoreless tie for Canada. A 1-0 win for England, the European champion, in opposition to the World Cup newcomer Haiti. The United States’ 3-0 victory over Vietnam.
Sunday introduced the prospect of the event’s first true shocker. And then identical to that, it was gone.
The scare got here courtesy of South Africa, and striker Hildah Magaia, who bundled a rebound into Sweden’s aim three minutes into the second half to offer her group a shocking 1-0 lead in opposition to Sweden, the world’s third-ranked group. The South African gamers might hardly imagine their luck, and have been quickly celebrating with a dance. Their teaching employees poured off the bench and then dissolved right into a collection of bear hugs.
But then Sweden stormed again. Fridolina Rolfo tied rating with a aim at the again submit in the sixty fifth minute, and defender Amanda Ilestedt obtained the winner with a header off a nook kick in the ninetieth.
Much was made earlier than the World Cup of the potential hole between the eight first-time entrants and the conventional powers. The first week has proven the expertise hole may not be as yawning as some assume.
To a small subset of devoted soccer followers, Sophia Smith’s aim celebration throughout the United States’ 3-0 victory in opposition to Vietnam would have seemed acquainted.
After her second aim in the U.S. group’s 3-0 victory over Vietnam, Smith ran her fingers throughout her lips to zip them and then threw away an imaginary key. It was the similar aim celebration her good good friend and former Stanford teammate Katie Meyer used throughout a penalty shootout at the 2019 N.C.A.A. championship recreation. The gesture by Meyer, Stanford’s goalkeeper and group captain, quickly went viral.
When Stanford gained the penalty shootout that day, Smith ran to Meyer and leaped onto her, inflicting them each to tumble to the floor.
Just over two years later, in March 2022, Meyer was discovered lifeless in her dorm room just a few months earlier than commencement. She had killed herself.
“That was for Katie,” Smith mentioned after the Vietnam recreation, explaining that she and one other former Stanford participant on the U.S. group, Naomi Girma, had deliberate the aim celebration in the days main as much as the World Cup. Both have devoted this event to Meyer.
In Meyer’s reminiscence, Smith and Girma additionally launched a psychological well being care initiative with the nonprofit Common Goal that included filming a public service announcement with a number of of their U.S. teammates. “We just want to honor her in every way,” Smith mentioned.
Vulnerability is an indication of energy, not weak spot. My teammates and I are decided to verify everybody has the assist they want.
Launching the first psychological well being initiative of its form with my pals at @CommonGoalOrg.
This one’s for you Katie ❤️ pic.twitter.com/AoGLUcxeMU
— Naomi Girma (@naomi_girma) July 18, 2023
Smith mentioned Meyer’s dying “changed everything” about her life. It has helped her worth her friendships extra, she mentioned, and put different points into perspective.
“Now I don’t take things too seriously,” mentioned Smith, who left Stanford two years early to play professionally. “I realized that there’s so many more important things happening and the little things that stress me out take a toll on me.”
France arrived in Australia as a World Cup favourite on the mend. Torn aside by bitter feuds, it has in current months misplaced gamers, welcomed them again, and then misplaced them once more. It has modified coaches, modified approaches and modified techniques. And now it has requested Hervé Renard, a revered 54-year-old with a adorned males’s World Cup résumé however no earlier expertise teaching girls, to hold it a minimum of so far as the semifinals.
He began the course of, he mentioned, by being open about what he didn’t know.
“For me everything was new because I didn’t know women’s football, how to manage the girls,” he mentioned. “I was lucky because on our staff a lot of people were already working with women’s football. So I was listening.”
The Women’s World Cup’s latest aim celebration is delayed gratification.
The newest participant to hitch the membership was Stefanie van der Gragt of the Netherlands, who scored her group’s solely aim in a 1-0 victory in opposition to Portugal on Sunday, had it dominated out instantly for offside and then, three lengthy minutes later, had it reinstated after a video assessment.
“It’s always difficult to wait,” van der Gragt mentioned. “But it doesn’t matter: We win, and that’s what is important.”
Van der Gragt’s transient emotional roller-coaster has been echoed in different video games on this event. Sophia Smith of the United States skilled the similar wait a day earlier, when her second aim in opposition to Vietnam was initially disallowed and then returned to her after the officers took a re-examination.
Many occasions, the wait is price it. On Friday, Georgia Stanway of England failed to attain on a penalty kick in opposition to Haiti solely to have one other video assessment grant her a second try, which she transformed. That similar night time, the very same sequence performed out for Riko Ueki of Japan.
In every case, as with Van der Gragt’s aim for the Netherlands on Sunday, the key participant in the wait was soccer’s video assistant referee system. The system was launched a number of years in the past to not re-referee video games, however to make sure that the officers obtained all the massive calls appropriate.
While few would argue with that motivation, the system’s many detractors complain that in making an attempt to do the proper factor, V.A.R. is robbing the recreation of a few of its spontaneity. Penalty choices now routinely take a number of minutes to substantiate as performs are scrutinized once more and once more. Goals are dominated out and then given. Sometimes that leaves gamers ready, and ready, for affirmation that one thing is definitely price celebrating.
Not everybody, although, minds the wait. A couple of minutes earlier than Smith’s delayed-gratification aim in opposition to Vietnam, the United States had been awarded a penalty kick when the match referee, once more utilizing video assessment, overruled her preliminary determination {that a} foul in opposition to Trinity Rodman didn’t benefit a visit to the penalty spot.
United States Coach Vlatko Andonovski mentioned he would by no means complain about the wait to get a name appropriate.
“With all the cameras, with V.A.R., with all the angles that the referees are reviewing, I’m sure that they’re calling the right call,” he mentioned.
The upside for van der Gragt on Sunday? She obtained to have a good time the recreation’s solely aim twice.
Despite a profitable run in worldwide play over the previous few years, France has been in turmoil behind the scenes. In March, the French federation fired its longtime coach, Corinne Diacre, after gamers complained of an unhealthy setting on the group.
Hervé Renard, a well-traveled coach however one who had by no means led a girls’s group, has labored to regular the ship.
But Jamaica, a group enjoying in its second World Cup, stifled that run on Sunday, incomes its first ever level in the standings with an unlikely draw in opposition to France, 0-0. Jamaica had to make use of crowdfunding web sites to lift cash for the group’s journey to Australia and New Zealand, and misplaced all three of its video games in the group stage in 2019.
The first 4 days of the World Cup have produced a string of curiously slim rating strains for a few of the event favorites. A scoreless tie for Canada. A 1-0 win for England, the European champion, in opposition to the World Cup newcomer Haiti. The United States’ 3-0 victory over Vietnam.
Sunday introduced the prospect of the event’s first true shocker. And then identical to that, it was gone.
The scare got here courtesy of South Africa, and striker Hildah Magaia, who bundled a rebound into Sweden’s aim three minutes into the second half to offer her group a shocking 1-0 lead in opposition to Sweden, the world’s third-ranked group. The South African gamers might hardly imagine their luck, and have been quickly celebrating with a dance. Their teaching employees poured off the bench and then dissolved right into a collection of bear hugs.
But then Sweden stormed again. Fridolina Rolfo tied rating with a aim at the again submit in the sixty fifth minute, and defender Amanda Ilestedt obtained the winner with a header off a nook kick in the ninetieth.
Much was made earlier than the World Cup of the potential hole between the eight first-time entrants and the conventional powers. The first week has proven the expertise hole may not be as yawning as some assume.
To a small subset of devoted soccer followers, Sophia Smith’s aim celebration throughout the United States’ 3-0 victory in opposition to Vietnam would have seemed acquainted.
After her second aim in the U.S. group’s 3-0 victory over Vietnam, Smith ran her fingers throughout her lips to zip them and then threw away an imaginary key. It was the similar aim celebration her good good friend and former Stanford teammate Katie Meyer used throughout a penalty shootout at the 2019 N.C.A.A. championship recreation. The gesture by Meyer, Stanford’s goalkeeper and group captain, quickly went viral.
When Stanford gained the penalty shootout that day, Smith ran to Meyer and leaped onto her, inflicting them each to tumble to the floor.
Just over two years later, in March 2022, Meyer was discovered lifeless in her dorm room just a few months earlier than commencement. She had killed herself.
“That was for Katie,” Smith mentioned after the Vietnam recreation, explaining that she and one other former Stanford participant on the U.S. group, Naomi Girma, had deliberate the aim celebration in the days main as much as the World Cup. Both have devoted this event to Meyer.
In Meyer’s reminiscence, Smith and Girma additionally launched a psychological well being care initiative with the nonprofit Common Goal that included filming a public service announcement with a number of of their U.S. teammates. “We just want to honor her in every way,” Smith mentioned.
Vulnerability is an indication of energy, not weak spot. My teammates and I are decided to verify everybody has the assist they want.
Launching the first psychological well being initiative of its form with my pals at @CommonGoalOrg.
This one’s for you Katie ❤️ pic.twitter.com/AoGLUcxeMU
— Naomi Girma (@naomi_girma) July 18, 2023
Smith mentioned Meyer’s dying “changed everything” about her life. It has helped her worth her friendships extra, she mentioned, and put different points into perspective.
“Now I don’t take things too seriously,” mentioned Smith, who left Stanford two years early to play professionally. “I realized that there’s so many more important things happening and the little things that stress me out take a toll on me.”
France arrived in Australia as a World Cup favourite on the mend. Torn aside by bitter feuds, it has in current months misplaced gamers, welcomed them again, and then misplaced them once more. It has modified coaches, modified approaches and modified techniques. And now it has requested Hervé Renard, a revered 54-year-old with a adorned males’s World Cup résumé however no earlier expertise teaching girls, to hold it a minimum of so far as the semifinals.
He began the course of, he mentioned, by being open about what he didn’t know.
“For me everything was new because I didn’t know women’s football, how to manage the girls,” he mentioned. “I was lucky because on our staff a lot of people were already working with women’s football. So I was listening.”
The Women’s World Cup’s latest aim celebration is delayed gratification.
The newest participant to hitch the membership was Stefanie van der Gragt of the Netherlands, who scored her group’s solely aim in a 1-0 victory in opposition to Portugal on Sunday, had it dominated out instantly for offside and then, three lengthy minutes later, had it reinstated after a video assessment.
“It’s always difficult to wait,” van der Gragt mentioned. “But it doesn’t matter: We win, and that’s what is important.”
Van der Gragt’s transient emotional roller-coaster has been echoed in different video games on this event. Sophia Smith of the United States skilled the similar wait a day earlier, when her second aim in opposition to Vietnam was initially disallowed and then returned to her after the officers took a re-examination.
Many occasions, the wait is price it. On Friday, Georgia Stanway of England failed to attain on a penalty kick in opposition to Haiti solely to have one other video assessment grant her a second try, which she transformed. That similar night time, the very same sequence performed out for Riko Ueki of Japan.
In every case, as with Van der Gragt’s aim for the Netherlands on Sunday, the key participant in the wait was soccer’s video assistant referee system. The system was launched a number of years in the past to not re-referee video games, however to make sure that the officers obtained all the massive calls appropriate.
While few would argue with that motivation, the system’s many detractors complain that in making an attempt to do the proper factor, V.A.R. is robbing the recreation of a few of its spontaneity. Penalty choices now routinely take a number of minutes to substantiate as performs are scrutinized once more and once more. Goals are dominated out and then given. Sometimes that leaves gamers ready, and ready, for affirmation that one thing is definitely price celebrating.
Not everybody, although, minds the wait. A couple of minutes earlier than Smith’s delayed-gratification aim in opposition to Vietnam, the United States had been awarded a penalty kick when the match referee, once more utilizing video assessment, overruled her preliminary determination {that a} foul in opposition to Trinity Rodman didn’t benefit a visit to the penalty spot.
United States Coach Vlatko Andonovski mentioned he would by no means complain about the wait to get a name appropriate.
“With all the cameras, with V.A.R., with all the angles that the referees are reviewing, I’m sure that they’re calling the right call,” he mentioned.
The upside for van der Gragt on Sunday? She obtained to have a good time the recreation’s solely aim twice.
Despite a profitable run in worldwide play over the previous few years, France has been in turmoil behind the scenes. In March, the French federation fired its longtime coach, Corinne Diacre, after gamers complained of an unhealthy setting on the group.
Hervé Renard, a well-traveled coach however one who had by no means led a girls’s group, has labored to regular the ship.
But Jamaica, a group enjoying in its second World Cup, stifled that run on Sunday, incomes its first ever level in the standings with an unlikely draw in opposition to France, 0-0. Jamaica had to make use of crowdfunding web sites to lift cash for the group’s journey to Australia and New Zealand, and misplaced all three of its video games in the group stage in 2019.
The first 4 days of the World Cup have produced a string of curiously slim rating strains for a few of the event favorites. A scoreless tie for Canada. A 1-0 win for England, the European champion, in opposition to the World Cup newcomer Haiti. The United States’ 3-0 victory over Vietnam.
Sunday introduced the prospect of the event’s first true shocker. And then identical to that, it was gone.
The scare got here courtesy of South Africa, and striker Hildah Magaia, who bundled a rebound into Sweden’s aim three minutes into the second half to offer her group a shocking 1-0 lead in opposition to Sweden, the world’s third-ranked group. The South African gamers might hardly imagine their luck, and have been quickly celebrating with a dance. Their teaching employees poured off the bench and then dissolved right into a collection of bear hugs.
But then Sweden stormed again. Fridolina Rolfo tied rating with a aim at the again submit in the sixty fifth minute, and defender Amanda Ilestedt obtained the winner with a header off a nook kick in the ninetieth.
Much was made earlier than the World Cup of the potential hole between the eight first-time entrants and the conventional powers. The first week has proven the expertise hole may not be as yawning as some assume.
To a small subset of devoted soccer followers, Sophia Smith’s aim celebration throughout the United States’ 3-0 victory in opposition to Vietnam would have seemed acquainted.
After her second aim in the U.S. group’s 3-0 victory over Vietnam, Smith ran her fingers throughout her lips to zip them and then threw away an imaginary key. It was the similar aim celebration her good good friend and former Stanford teammate Katie Meyer used throughout a penalty shootout at the 2019 N.C.A.A. championship recreation. The gesture by Meyer, Stanford’s goalkeeper and group captain, quickly went viral.
When Stanford gained the penalty shootout that day, Smith ran to Meyer and leaped onto her, inflicting them each to tumble to the floor.
Just over two years later, in March 2022, Meyer was discovered lifeless in her dorm room just a few months earlier than commencement. She had killed herself.
“That was for Katie,” Smith mentioned after the Vietnam recreation, explaining that she and one other former Stanford participant on the U.S. group, Naomi Girma, had deliberate the aim celebration in the days main as much as the World Cup. Both have devoted this event to Meyer.
In Meyer’s reminiscence, Smith and Girma additionally launched a psychological well being care initiative with the nonprofit Common Goal that included filming a public service announcement with a number of of their U.S. teammates. “We just want to honor her in every way,” Smith mentioned.
Vulnerability is an indication of energy, not weak spot. My teammates and I are decided to verify everybody has the assist they want.
Launching the first psychological well being initiative of its form with my pals at @CommonGoalOrg.
This one’s for you Katie ❤️ pic.twitter.com/AoGLUcxeMU
— Naomi Girma (@naomi_girma) July 18, 2023
Smith mentioned Meyer’s dying “changed everything” about her life. It has helped her worth her friendships extra, she mentioned, and put different points into perspective.
“Now I don’t take things too seriously,” mentioned Smith, who left Stanford two years early to play professionally. “I realized that there’s so many more important things happening and the little things that stress me out take a toll on me.”
France arrived in Australia as a World Cup favourite on the mend. Torn aside by bitter feuds, it has in current months misplaced gamers, welcomed them again, and then misplaced them once more. It has modified coaches, modified approaches and modified techniques. And now it has requested Hervé Renard, a revered 54-year-old with a adorned males’s World Cup résumé however no earlier expertise teaching girls, to hold it a minimum of so far as the semifinals.
He began the course of, he mentioned, by being open about what he didn’t know.
“For me everything was new because I didn’t know women’s football, how to manage the girls,” he mentioned. “I was lucky because on our staff a lot of people were already working with women’s football. So I was listening.”
The Women’s World Cup’s latest aim celebration is delayed gratification.
The newest participant to hitch the membership was Stefanie van der Gragt of the Netherlands, who scored her group’s solely aim in a 1-0 victory in opposition to Portugal on Sunday, had it dominated out instantly for offside and then, three lengthy minutes later, had it reinstated after a video assessment.
“It’s always difficult to wait,” van der Gragt mentioned. “But it doesn’t matter: We win, and that’s what is important.”
Van der Gragt’s transient emotional roller-coaster has been echoed in different video games on this event. Sophia Smith of the United States skilled the similar wait a day earlier, when her second aim in opposition to Vietnam was initially disallowed and then returned to her after the officers took a re-examination.
Many occasions, the wait is price it. On Friday, Georgia Stanway of England failed to attain on a penalty kick in opposition to Haiti solely to have one other video assessment grant her a second try, which she transformed. That similar night time, the very same sequence performed out for Riko Ueki of Japan.
In every case, as with Van der Gragt’s aim for the Netherlands on Sunday, the key participant in the wait was soccer’s video assistant referee system. The system was launched a number of years in the past to not re-referee video games, however to make sure that the officers obtained all the massive calls appropriate.
While few would argue with that motivation, the system’s many detractors complain that in making an attempt to do the proper factor, V.A.R. is robbing the recreation of a few of its spontaneity. Penalty choices now routinely take a number of minutes to substantiate as performs are scrutinized once more and once more. Goals are dominated out and then given. Sometimes that leaves gamers ready, and ready, for affirmation that one thing is definitely price celebrating.
Not everybody, although, minds the wait. A couple of minutes earlier than Smith’s delayed-gratification aim in opposition to Vietnam, the United States had been awarded a penalty kick when the match referee, once more utilizing video assessment, overruled her preliminary determination {that a} foul in opposition to Trinity Rodman didn’t benefit a visit to the penalty spot.
United States Coach Vlatko Andonovski mentioned he would by no means complain about the wait to get a name appropriate.
“With all the cameras, with V.A.R., with all the angles that the referees are reviewing, I’m sure that they’re calling the right call,” he mentioned.
The upside for van der Gragt on Sunday? She obtained to have a good time the recreation’s solely aim twice.
Despite a profitable run in worldwide play over the previous few years, France has been in turmoil behind the scenes. In March, the French federation fired its longtime coach, Corinne Diacre, after gamers complained of an unhealthy setting on the group.
Hervé Renard, a well-traveled coach however one who had by no means led a girls’s group, has labored to regular the ship.
But Jamaica, a group enjoying in its second World Cup, stifled that run on Sunday, incomes its first ever level in the standings with an unlikely draw in opposition to France, 0-0. Jamaica had to make use of crowdfunding web sites to lift cash for the group’s journey to Australia and New Zealand, and misplaced all three of its video games in the group stage in 2019.
The first 4 days of the World Cup have produced a string of curiously slim rating strains for a few of the event favorites. A scoreless tie for Canada. A 1-0 win for England, the European champion, in opposition to the World Cup newcomer Haiti. The United States’ 3-0 victory over Vietnam.
Sunday introduced the prospect of the event’s first true shocker. And then identical to that, it was gone.
The scare got here courtesy of South Africa, and striker Hildah Magaia, who bundled a rebound into Sweden’s aim three minutes into the second half to offer her group a shocking 1-0 lead in opposition to Sweden, the world’s third-ranked group. The South African gamers might hardly imagine their luck, and have been quickly celebrating with a dance. Their teaching employees poured off the bench and then dissolved right into a collection of bear hugs.
But then Sweden stormed again. Fridolina Rolfo tied rating with a aim at the again submit in the sixty fifth minute, and defender Amanda Ilestedt obtained the winner with a header off a nook kick in the ninetieth.
Much was made earlier than the World Cup of the potential hole between the eight first-time entrants and the conventional powers. The first week has proven the expertise hole may not be as yawning as some assume.
To a small subset of devoted soccer followers, Sophia Smith’s aim celebration throughout the United States’ 3-0 victory in opposition to Vietnam would have seemed acquainted.
After her second aim in the U.S. group’s 3-0 victory over Vietnam, Smith ran her fingers throughout her lips to zip them and then threw away an imaginary key. It was the similar aim celebration her good good friend and former Stanford teammate Katie Meyer used throughout a penalty shootout at the 2019 N.C.A.A. championship recreation. The gesture by Meyer, Stanford’s goalkeeper and group captain, quickly went viral.
When Stanford gained the penalty shootout that day, Smith ran to Meyer and leaped onto her, inflicting them each to tumble to the floor.
Just over two years later, in March 2022, Meyer was discovered lifeless in her dorm room just a few months earlier than commencement. She had killed herself.
“That was for Katie,” Smith mentioned after the Vietnam recreation, explaining that she and one other former Stanford participant on the U.S. group, Naomi Girma, had deliberate the aim celebration in the days main as much as the World Cup. Both have devoted this event to Meyer.
In Meyer’s reminiscence, Smith and Girma additionally launched a psychological well being care initiative with the nonprofit Common Goal that included filming a public service announcement with a number of of their U.S. teammates. “We just want to honor her in every way,” Smith mentioned.
Vulnerability is an indication of energy, not weak spot. My teammates and I are decided to verify everybody has the assist they want.
Launching the first psychological well being initiative of its form with my pals at @CommonGoalOrg.
This one’s for you Katie ❤️ pic.twitter.com/AoGLUcxeMU
— Naomi Girma (@naomi_girma) July 18, 2023
Smith mentioned Meyer’s dying “changed everything” about her life. It has helped her worth her friendships extra, she mentioned, and put different points into perspective.
“Now I don’t take things too seriously,” mentioned Smith, who left Stanford two years early to play professionally. “I realized that there’s so many more important things happening and the little things that stress me out take a toll on me.”
France arrived in Australia as a World Cup favourite on the mend. Torn aside by bitter feuds, it has in current months misplaced gamers, welcomed them again, and then misplaced them once more. It has modified coaches, modified approaches and modified techniques. And now it has requested Hervé Renard, a revered 54-year-old with a adorned males’s World Cup résumé however no earlier expertise teaching girls, to hold it a minimum of so far as the semifinals.
He began the course of, he mentioned, by being open about what he didn’t know.
“For me everything was new because I didn’t know women’s football, how to manage the girls,” he mentioned. “I was lucky because on our staff a lot of people were already working with women’s football. So I was listening.”
The Women’s World Cup’s latest aim celebration is delayed gratification.
The newest participant to hitch the membership was Stefanie van der Gragt of the Netherlands, who scored her group’s solely aim in a 1-0 victory in opposition to Portugal on Sunday, had it dominated out instantly for offside and then, three lengthy minutes later, had it reinstated after a video assessment.
“It’s always difficult to wait,” van der Gragt mentioned. “But it doesn’t matter: We win, and that’s what is important.”
Van der Gragt’s transient emotional roller-coaster has been echoed in different video games on this event. Sophia Smith of the United States skilled the similar wait a day earlier, when her second aim in opposition to Vietnam was initially disallowed and then returned to her after the officers took a re-examination.
Many occasions, the wait is price it. On Friday, Georgia Stanway of England failed to attain on a penalty kick in opposition to Haiti solely to have one other video assessment grant her a second try, which she transformed. That similar night time, the very same sequence performed out for Riko Ueki of Japan.
In every case, as with Van der Gragt’s aim for the Netherlands on Sunday, the key participant in the wait was soccer’s video assistant referee system. The system was launched a number of years in the past to not re-referee video games, however to make sure that the officers obtained all the massive calls appropriate.
While few would argue with that motivation, the system’s many detractors complain that in making an attempt to do the proper factor, V.A.R. is robbing the recreation of a few of its spontaneity. Penalty choices now routinely take a number of minutes to substantiate as performs are scrutinized once more and once more. Goals are dominated out and then given. Sometimes that leaves gamers ready, and ready, for affirmation that one thing is definitely price celebrating.
Not everybody, although, minds the wait. A couple of minutes earlier than Smith’s delayed-gratification aim in opposition to Vietnam, the United States had been awarded a penalty kick when the match referee, once more utilizing video assessment, overruled her preliminary determination {that a} foul in opposition to Trinity Rodman didn’t benefit a visit to the penalty spot.
United States Coach Vlatko Andonovski mentioned he would by no means complain about the wait to get a name appropriate.
“With all the cameras, with V.A.R., with all the angles that the referees are reviewing, I’m sure that they’re calling the right call,” he mentioned.
The upside for van der Gragt on Sunday? She obtained to have a good time the recreation’s solely aim twice.
Despite a profitable run in worldwide play over the previous few years, France has been in turmoil behind the scenes. In March, the French federation fired its longtime coach, Corinne Diacre, after gamers complained of an unhealthy setting on the group.
Hervé Renard, a well-traveled coach however one who had by no means led a girls’s group, has labored to regular the ship.
But Jamaica, a group enjoying in its second World Cup, stifled that run on Sunday, incomes its first ever level in the standings with an unlikely draw in opposition to France, 0-0. Jamaica had to make use of crowdfunding web sites to lift cash for the group’s journey to Australia and New Zealand, and misplaced all three of its video games in the group stage in 2019.
The first 4 days of the World Cup have produced a string of curiously slim rating strains for a few of the event favorites. A scoreless tie for Canada. A 1-0 win for England, the European champion, in opposition to the World Cup newcomer Haiti. The United States’ 3-0 victory over Vietnam.
Sunday introduced the prospect of the event’s first true shocker. And then identical to that, it was gone.
The scare got here courtesy of South Africa, and striker Hildah Magaia, who bundled a rebound into Sweden’s aim three minutes into the second half to offer her group a shocking 1-0 lead in opposition to Sweden, the world’s third-ranked group. The South African gamers might hardly imagine their luck, and have been quickly celebrating with a dance. Their teaching employees poured off the bench and then dissolved right into a collection of bear hugs.
But then Sweden stormed again. Fridolina Rolfo tied rating with a aim at the again submit in the sixty fifth minute, and defender Amanda Ilestedt obtained the winner with a header off a nook kick in the ninetieth.
Much was made earlier than the World Cup of the potential hole between the eight first-time entrants and the conventional powers. The first week has proven the expertise hole may not be as yawning as some assume.
To a small subset of devoted soccer followers, Sophia Smith’s aim celebration throughout the United States’ 3-0 victory in opposition to Vietnam would have seemed acquainted.
After her second aim in the U.S. group’s 3-0 victory over Vietnam, Smith ran her fingers throughout her lips to zip them and then threw away an imaginary key. It was the similar aim celebration her good good friend and former Stanford teammate Katie Meyer used throughout a penalty shootout at the 2019 N.C.A.A. championship recreation. The gesture by Meyer, Stanford’s goalkeeper and group captain, quickly went viral.
When Stanford gained the penalty shootout that day, Smith ran to Meyer and leaped onto her, inflicting them each to tumble to the floor.
Just over two years later, in March 2022, Meyer was discovered lifeless in her dorm room just a few months earlier than commencement. She had killed herself.
“That was for Katie,” Smith mentioned after the Vietnam recreation, explaining that she and one other former Stanford participant on the U.S. group, Naomi Girma, had deliberate the aim celebration in the days main as much as the World Cup. Both have devoted this event to Meyer.
In Meyer’s reminiscence, Smith and Girma additionally launched a psychological well being care initiative with the nonprofit Common Goal that included filming a public service announcement with a number of of their U.S. teammates. “We just want to honor her in every way,” Smith mentioned.
Vulnerability is an indication of energy, not weak spot. My teammates and I are decided to verify everybody has the assist they want.
Launching the first psychological well being initiative of its form with my pals at @CommonGoalOrg.
This one’s for you Katie ❤️ pic.twitter.com/AoGLUcxeMU
— Naomi Girma (@naomi_girma) July 18, 2023
Smith mentioned Meyer’s dying “changed everything” about her life. It has helped her worth her friendships extra, she mentioned, and put different points into perspective.
“Now I don’t take things too seriously,” mentioned Smith, who left Stanford two years early to play professionally. “I realized that there’s so many more important things happening and the little things that stress me out take a toll on me.”
France arrived in Australia as a World Cup favourite on the mend. Torn aside by bitter feuds, it has in current months misplaced gamers, welcomed them again, and then misplaced them once more. It has modified coaches, modified approaches and modified techniques. And now it has requested Hervé Renard, a revered 54-year-old with a adorned males’s World Cup résumé however no earlier expertise teaching girls, to hold it a minimum of so far as the semifinals.
He began the course of, he mentioned, by being open about what he didn’t know.
“For me everything was new because I didn’t know women’s football, how to manage the girls,” he mentioned. “I was lucky because on our staff a lot of people were already working with women’s football. So I was listening.”
The Women’s World Cup’s latest aim celebration is delayed gratification.
The newest participant to hitch the membership was Stefanie van der Gragt of the Netherlands, who scored her group’s solely aim in a 1-0 victory in opposition to Portugal on Sunday, had it dominated out instantly for offside and then, three lengthy minutes later, had it reinstated after a video assessment.
“It’s always difficult to wait,” van der Gragt mentioned. “But it doesn’t matter: We win, and that’s what is important.”
Van der Gragt’s transient emotional roller-coaster has been echoed in different video games on this event. Sophia Smith of the United States skilled the similar wait a day earlier, when her second aim in opposition to Vietnam was initially disallowed and then returned to her after the officers took a re-examination.
Many occasions, the wait is price it. On Friday, Georgia Stanway of England failed to attain on a penalty kick in opposition to Haiti solely to have one other video assessment grant her a second try, which she transformed. That similar night time, the very same sequence performed out for Riko Ueki of Japan.
In every case, as with Van der Gragt’s aim for the Netherlands on Sunday, the key participant in the wait was soccer’s video assistant referee system. The system was launched a number of years in the past to not re-referee video games, however to make sure that the officers obtained all the massive calls appropriate.
While few would argue with that motivation, the system’s many detractors complain that in making an attempt to do the proper factor, V.A.R. is robbing the recreation of a few of its spontaneity. Penalty choices now routinely take a number of minutes to substantiate as performs are scrutinized once more and once more. Goals are dominated out and then given. Sometimes that leaves gamers ready, and ready, for affirmation that one thing is definitely price celebrating.
Not everybody, although, minds the wait. A couple of minutes earlier than Smith’s delayed-gratification aim in opposition to Vietnam, the United States had been awarded a penalty kick when the match referee, once more utilizing video assessment, overruled her preliminary determination {that a} foul in opposition to Trinity Rodman didn’t benefit a visit to the penalty spot.
United States Coach Vlatko Andonovski mentioned he would by no means complain about the wait to get a name appropriate.
“With all the cameras, with V.A.R., with all the angles that the referees are reviewing, I’m sure that they’re calling the right call,” he mentioned.
The upside for van der Gragt on Sunday? She obtained to have a good time the recreation’s solely aim twice.
Despite a profitable run in worldwide play over the previous few years, France has been in turmoil behind the scenes. In March, the French federation fired its longtime coach, Corinne Diacre, after gamers complained of an unhealthy setting on the group.
Hervé Renard, a well-traveled coach however one who had by no means led a girls’s group, has labored to regular the ship.
But Jamaica, a group enjoying in its second World Cup, stifled that run on Sunday, incomes its first ever level in the standings with an unlikely draw in opposition to France, 0-0. Jamaica had to make use of crowdfunding web sites to lift cash for the group’s journey to Australia and New Zealand, and misplaced all three of its video games in the group stage in 2019.
The first 4 days of the World Cup have produced a string of curiously slim rating strains for a few of the event favorites. A scoreless tie for Canada. A 1-0 win for England, the European champion, in opposition to the World Cup newcomer Haiti. The United States’ 3-0 victory over Vietnam.
Sunday introduced the prospect of the event’s first true shocker. And then identical to that, it was gone.
The scare got here courtesy of South Africa, and striker Hildah Magaia, who bundled a rebound into Sweden’s aim three minutes into the second half to offer her group a shocking 1-0 lead in opposition to Sweden, the world’s third-ranked group. The South African gamers might hardly imagine their luck, and have been quickly celebrating with a dance. Their teaching employees poured off the bench and then dissolved right into a collection of bear hugs.
But then Sweden stormed again. Fridolina Rolfo tied rating with a aim at the again submit in the sixty fifth minute, and defender Amanda Ilestedt obtained the winner with a header off a nook kick in the ninetieth.
Much was made earlier than the World Cup of the potential hole between the eight first-time entrants and the conventional powers. The first week has proven the expertise hole may not be as yawning as some assume.
To a small subset of devoted soccer followers, Sophia Smith’s aim celebration throughout the United States’ 3-0 victory in opposition to Vietnam would have seemed acquainted.
After her second aim in the U.S. group’s 3-0 victory over Vietnam, Smith ran her fingers throughout her lips to zip them and then threw away an imaginary key. It was the similar aim celebration her good good friend and former Stanford teammate Katie Meyer used throughout a penalty shootout at the 2019 N.C.A.A. championship recreation. The gesture by Meyer, Stanford’s goalkeeper and group captain, quickly went viral.
When Stanford gained the penalty shootout that day, Smith ran to Meyer and leaped onto her, inflicting them each to tumble to the floor.
Just over two years later, in March 2022, Meyer was discovered lifeless in her dorm room just a few months earlier than commencement. She had killed herself.
“That was for Katie,” Smith mentioned after the Vietnam recreation, explaining that she and one other former Stanford participant on the U.S. group, Naomi Girma, had deliberate the aim celebration in the days main as much as the World Cup. Both have devoted this event to Meyer.
In Meyer’s reminiscence, Smith and Girma additionally launched a psychological well being care initiative with the nonprofit Common Goal that included filming a public service announcement with a number of of their U.S. teammates. “We just want to honor her in every way,” Smith mentioned.
Vulnerability is an indication of energy, not weak spot. My teammates and I are decided to verify everybody has the assist they want.
Launching the first psychological well being initiative of its form with my pals at @CommonGoalOrg.
This one’s for you Katie ❤️ pic.twitter.com/AoGLUcxeMU
— Naomi Girma (@naomi_girma) July 18, 2023
Smith mentioned Meyer’s dying “changed everything” about her life. It has helped her worth her friendships extra, she mentioned, and put different points into perspective.
“Now I don’t take things too seriously,” mentioned Smith, who left Stanford two years early to play professionally. “I realized that there’s so many more important things happening and the little things that stress me out take a toll on me.”
France arrived in Australia as a World Cup favourite on the mend. Torn aside by bitter feuds, it has in current months misplaced gamers, welcomed them again, and then misplaced them once more. It has modified coaches, modified approaches and modified techniques. And now it has requested Hervé Renard, a revered 54-year-old with a adorned males’s World Cup résumé however no earlier expertise teaching girls, to hold it a minimum of so far as the semifinals.
He began the course of, he mentioned, by being open about what he didn’t know.
“For me everything was new because I didn’t know women’s football, how to manage the girls,” he mentioned. “I was lucky because on our staff a lot of people were already working with women’s football. So I was listening.”
The Women’s World Cup’s latest aim celebration is delayed gratification.
The newest participant to hitch the membership was Stefanie van der Gragt of the Netherlands, who scored her group’s solely aim in a 1-0 victory in opposition to Portugal on Sunday, had it dominated out instantly for offside and then, three lengthy minutes later, had it reinstated after a video assessment.
“It’s always difficult to wait,” van der Gragt mentioned. “But it doesn’t matter: We win, and that’s what is important.”
Van der Gragt’s transient emotional roller-coaster has been echoed in different video games on this event. Sophia Smith of the United States skilled the similar wait a day earlier, when her second aim in opposition to Vietnam was initially disallowed and then returned to her after the officers took a re-examination.
Many occasions, the wait is price it. On Friday, Georgia Stanway of England failed to attain on a penalty kick in opposition to Haiti solely to have one other video assessment grant her a second try, which she transformed. That similar night time, the very same sequence performed out for Riko Ueki of Japan.
In every case, as with Van der Gragt’s aim for the Netherlands on Sunday, the key participant in the wait was soccer’s video assistant referee system. The system was launched a number of years in the past to not re-referee video games, however to make sure that the officers obtained all the massive calls appropriate.
While few would argue with that motivation, the system’s many detractors complain that in making an attempt to do the proper factor, V.A.R. is robbing the recreation of a few of its spontaneity. Penalty choices now routinely take a number of minutes to substantiate as performs are scrutinized once more and once more. Goals are dominated out and then given. Sometimes that leaves gamers ready, and ready, for affirmation that one thing is definitely price celebrating.
Not everybody, although, minds the wait. A couple of minutes earlier than Smith’s delayed-gratification aim in opposition to Vietnam, the United States had been awarded a penalty kick when the match referee, once more utilizing video assessment, overruled her preliminary determination {that a} foul in opposition to Trinity Rodman didn’t benefit a visit to the penalty spot.
United States Coach Vlatko Andonovski mentioned he would by no means complain about the wait to get a name appropriate.
“With all the cameras, with V.A.R., with all the angles that the referees are reviewing, I’m sure that they’re calling the right call,” he mentioned.
The upside for van der Gragt on Sunday? She obtained to have a good time the recreation’s solely aim twice.
Despite a profitable run in worldwide play over the previous few years, France has been in turmoil behind the scenes. In March, the French federation fired its longtime coach, Corinne Diacre, after gamers complained of an unhealthy setting on the group.
Hervé Renard, a well-traveled coach however one who had by no means led a girls’s group, has labored to regular the ship.
But Jamaica, a group enjoying in its second World Cup, stifled that run on Sunday, incomes its first ever level in the standings with an unlikely draw in opposition to France, 0-0. Jamaica had to make use of crowdfunding web sites to lift cash for the group’s journey to Australia and New Zealand, and misplaced all three of its video games in the group stage in 2019.
The first 4 days of the World Cup have produced a string of curiously slim rating strains for a few of the event favorites. A scoreless tie for Canada. A 1-0 win for England, the European champion, in opposition to the World Cup newcomer Haiti. The United States’ 3-0 victory over Vietnam.
Sunday introduced the prospect of the event’s first true shocker. And then identical to that, it was gone.
The scare got here courtesy of South Africa, and striker Hildah Magaia, who bundled a rebound into Sweden’s aim three minutes into the second half to offer her group a shocking 1-0 lead in opposition to Sweden, the world’s third-ranked group. The South African gamers might hardly imagine their luck, and have been quickly celebrating with a dance. Their teaching employees poured off the bench and then dissolved right into a collection of bear hugs.
But then Sweden stormed again. Fridolina Rolfo tied rating with a aim at the again submit in the sixty fifth minute, and defender Amanda Ilestedt obtained the winner with a header off a nook kick in the ninetieth.
Much was made earlier than the World Cup of the potential hole between the eight first-time entrants and the conventional powers. The first week has proven the expertise hole may not be as yawning as some assume.
To a small subset of devoted soccer followers, Sophia Smith’s aim celebration throughout the United States’ 3-0 victory in opposition to Vietnam would have seemed acquainted.
After her second aim in the U.S. group’s 3-0 victory over Vietnam, Smith ran her fingers throughout her lips to zip them and then threw away an imaginary key. It was the similar aim celebration her good good friend and former Stanford teammate Katie Meyer used throughout a penalty shootout at the 2019 N.C.A.A. championship recreation. The gesture by Meyer, Stanford’s goalkeeper and group captain, quickly went viral.
When Stanford gained the penalty shootout that day, Smith ran to Meyer and leaped onto her, inflicting them each to tumble to the floor.
Just over two years later, in March 2022, Meyer was discovered lifeless in her dorm room just a few months earlier than commencement. She had killed herself.
“That was for Katie,” Smith mentioned after the Vietnam recreation, explaining that she and one other former Stanford participant on the U.S. group, Naomi Girma, had deliberate the aim celebration in the days main as much as the World Cup. Both have devoted this event to Meyer.
In Meyer’s reminiscence, Smith and Girma additionally launched a psychological well being care initiative with the nonprofit Common Goal that included filming a public service announcement with a number of of their U.S. teammates. “We just want to honor her in every way,” Smith mentioned.
Vulnerability is an indication of energy, not weak spot. My teammates and I are decided to verify everybody has the assist they want.
Launching the first psychological well being initiative of its form with my pals at @CommonGoalOrg.
This one’s for you Katie ❤️ pic.twitter.com/AoGLUcxeMU
— Naomi Girma (@naomi_girma) July 18, 2023
Smith mentioned Meyer’s dying “changed everything” about her life. It has helped her worth her friendships extra, she mentioned, and put different points into perspective.
“Now I don’t take things too seriously,” mentioned Smith, who left Stanford two years early to play professionally. “I realized that there’s so many more important things happening and the little things that stress me out take a toll on me.”
France arrived in Australia as a World Cup favourite on the mend. Torn aside by bitter feuds, it has in current months misplaced gamers, welcomed them again, and then misplaced them once more. It has modified coaches, modified approaches and modified techniques. And now it has requested Hervé Renard, a revered 54-year-old with a adorned males’s World Cup résumé however no earlier expertise teaching girls, to hold it a minimum of so far as the semifinals.
He began the course of, he mentioned, by being open about what he didn’t know.
“For me everything was new because I didn’t know women’s football, how to manage the girls,” he mentioned. “I was lucky because on our staff a lot of people were already working with women’s football. So I was listening.”
The Women’s World Cup’s latest aim celebration is delayed gratification.
The newest participant to hitch the membership was Stefanie van der Gragt of the Netherlands, who scored her group’s solely aim in a 1-0 victory in opposition to Portugal on Sunday, had it dominated out instantly for offside and then, three lengthy minutes later, had it reinstated after a video assessment.
“It’s always difficult to wait,” van der Gragt mentioned. “But it doesn’t matter: We win, and that’s what is important.”
Van der Gragt’s transient emotional roller-coaster has been echoed in different video games on this event. Sophia Smith of the United States skilled the similar wait a day earlier, when her second aim in opposition to Vietnam was initially disallowed and then returned to her after the officers took a re-examination.
Many occasions, the wait is price it. On Friday, Georgia Stanway of England failed to attain on a penalty kick in opposition to Haiti solely to have one other video assessment grant her a second try, which she transformed. That similar night time, the very same sequence performed out for Riko Ueki of Japan.
In every case, as with Van der Gragt’s aim for the Netherlands on Sunday, the key participant in the wait was soccer’s video assistant referee system. The system was launched a number of years in the past to not re-referee video games, however to make sure that the officers obtained all the massive calls appropriate.
While few would argue with that motivation, the system’s many detractors complain that in making an attempt to do the proper factor, V.A.R. is robbing the recreation of a few of its spontaneity. Penalty choices now routinely take a number of minutes to substantiate as performs are scrutinized once more and once more. Goals are dominated out and then given. Sometimes that leaves gamers ready, and ready, for affirmation that one thing is definitely price celebrating.
Not everybody, although, minds the wait. A couple of minutes earlier than Smith’s delayed-gratification aim in opposition to Vietnam, the United States had been awarded a penalty kick when the match referee, once more utilizing video assessment, overruled her preliminary determination {that a} foul in opposition to Trinity Rodman didn’t benefit a visit to the penalty spot.
United States Coach Vlatko Andonovski mentioned he would by no means complain about the wait to get a name appropriate.
“With all the cameras, with V.A.R., with all the angles that the referees are reviewing, I’m sure that they’re calling the right call,” he mentioned.
The upside for van der Gragt on Sunday? She obtained to have a good time the recreation’s solely aim twice.
Despite a profitable run in worldwide play over the previous few years, France has been in turmoil behind the scenes. In March, the French federation fired its longtime coach, Corinne Diacre, after gamers complained of an unhealthy setting on the group.
Hervé Renard, a well-traveled coach however one who had by no means led a girls’s group, has labored to regular the ship.
But Jamaica, a group enjoying in its second World Cup, stifled that run on Sunday, incomes its first ever level in the standings with an unlikely draw in opposition to France, 0-0. Jamaica had to make use of crowdfunding web sites to lift cash for the group’s journey to Australia and New Zealand, and misplaced all three of its video games in the group stage in 2019.
The first 4 days of the World Cup have produced a string of curiously slim rating strains for a few of the event favorites. A scoreless tie for Canada. A 1-0 win for England, the European champion, in opposition to the World Cup newcomer Haiti. The United States’ 3-0 victory over Vietnam.
Sunday introduced the prospect of the event’s first true shocker. And then identical to that, it was gone.
The scare got here courtesy of South Africa, and striker Hildah Magaia, who bundled a rebound into Sweden’s aim three minutes into the second half to offer her group a shocking 1-0 lead in opposition to Sweden, the world’s third-ranked group. The South African gamers might hardly imagine their luck, and have been quickly celebrating with a dance. Their teaching employees poured off the bench and then dissolved right into a collection of bear hugs.
But then Sweden stormed again. Fridolina Rolfo tied rating with a aim at the again submit in the sixty fifth minute, and defender Amanda Ilestedt obtained the winner with a header off a nook kick in the ninetieth.
Much was made earlier than the World Cup of the potential hole between the eight first-time entrants and the conventional powers. The first week has proven the expertise hole may not be as yawning as some assume.
To a small subset of devoted soccer followers, Sophia Smith’s aim celebration throughout the United States’ 3-0 victory in opposition to Vietnam would have seemed acquainted.
After her second aim in the U.S. group’s 3-0 victory over Vietnam, Smith ran her fingers throughout her lips to zip them and then threw away an imaginary key. It was the similar aim celebration her good good friend and former Stanford teammate Katie Meyer used throughout a penalty shootout at the 2019 N.C.A.A. championship recreation. The gesture by Meyer, Stanford’s goalkeeper and group captain, quickly went viral.
When Stanford gained the penalty shootout that day, Smith ran to Meyer and leaped onto her, inflicting them each to tumble to the floor.
Just over two years later, in March 2022, Meyer was discovered lifeless in her dorm room just a few months earlier than commencement. She had killed herself.
“That was for Katie,” Smith mentioned after the Vietnam recreation, explaining that she and one other former Stanford participant on the U.S. group, Naomi Girma, had deliberate the aim celebration in the days main as much as the World Cup. Both have devoted this event to Meyer.
In Meyer’s reminiscence, Smith and Girma additionally launched a psychological well being care initiative with the nonprofit Common Goal that included filming a public service announcement with a number of of their U.S. teammates. “We just want to honor her in every way,” Smith mentioned.
Vulnerability is an indication of energy, not weak spot. My teammates and I are decided to verify everybody has the assist they want.
Launching the first psychological well being initiative of its form with my pals at @CommonGoalOrg.
This one’s for you Katie ❤️ pic.twitter.com/AoGLUcxeMU
— Naomi Girma (@naomi_girma) July 18, 2023
Smith mentioned Meyer’s dying “changed everything” about her life. It has helped her worth her friendships extra, she mentioned, and put different points into perspective.
“Now I don’t take things too seriously,” mentioned Smith, who left Stanford two years early to play professionally. “I realized that there’s so many more important things happening and the little things that stress me out take a toll on me.”
France arrived in Australia as a World Cup favourite on the mend. Torn aside by bitter feuds, it has in current months misplaced gamers, welcomed them again, and then misplaced them once more. It has modified coaches, modified approaches and modified techniques. And now it has requested Hervé Renard, a revered 54-year-old with a adorned males’s World Cup résumé however no earlier expertise teaching girls, to hold it a minimum of so far as the semifinals.
He began the course of, he mentioned, by being open about what he didn’t know.
“For me everything was new because I didn’t know women’s football, how to manage the girls,” he mentioned. “I was lucky because on our staff a lot of people were already working with women’s football. So I was listening.”
The Women’s World Cup’s latest aim celebration is delayed gratification.
The newest participant to hitch the membership was Stefanie van der Gragt of the Netherlands, who scored her group’s solely aim in a 1-0 victory in opposition to Portugal on Sunday, had it dominated out instantly for offside and then, three lengthy minutes later, had it reinstated after a video assessment.
“It’s always difficult to wait,” van der Gragt mentioned. “But it doesn’t matter: We win, and that’s what is important.”
Van der Gragt’s transient emotional roller-coaster has been echoed in different video games on this event. Sophia Smith of the United States skilled the similar wait a day earlier, when her second aim in opposition to Vietnam was initially disallowed and then returned to her after the officers took a re-examination.
Many occasions, the wait is price it. On Friday, Georgia Stanway of England failed to attain on a penalty kick in opposition to Haiti solely to have one other video assessment grant her a second try, which she transformed. That similar night time, the very same sequence performed out for Riko Ueki of Japan.
In every case, as with Van der Gragt’s aim for the Netherlands on Sunday, the key participant in the wait was soccer’s video assistant referee system. The system was launched a number of years in the past to not re-referee video games, however to make sure that the officers obtained all the massive calls appropriate.
While few would argue with that motivation, the system’s many detractors complain that in making an attempt to do the proper factor, V.A.R. is robbing the recreation of a few of its spontaneity. Penalty choices now routinely take a number of minutes to substantiate as performs are scrutinized once more and once more. Goals are dominated out and then given. Sometimes that leaves gamers ready, and ready, for affirmation that one thing is definitely price celebrating.
Not everybody, although, minds the wait. A couple of minutes earlier than Smith’s delayed-gratification aim in opposition to Vietnam, the United States had been awarded a penalty kick when the match referee, once more utilizing video assessment, overruled her preliminary determination {that a} foul in opposition to Trinity Rodman didn’t benefit a visit to the penalty spot.
United States Coach Vlatko Andonovski mentioned he would by no means complain about the wait to get a name appropriate.
“With all the cameras, with V.A.R., with all the angles that the referees are reviewing, I’m sure that they’re calling the right call,” he mentioned.
The upside for van der Gragt on Sunday? She obtained to have a good time the recreation’s solely aim twice.
Despite a profitable run in worldwide play over the previous few years, France has been in turmoil behind the scenes. In March, the French federation fired its longtime coach, Corinne Diacre, after gamers complained of an unhealthy setting on the group.
Hervé Renard, a well-traveled coach however one who had by no means led a girls’s group, has labored to regular the ship.
But Jamaica, a group enjoying in its second World Cup, stifled that run on Sunday, incomes its first ever level in the standings with an unlikely draw in opposition to France, 0-0. Jamaica had to make use of crowdfunding web sites to lift cash for the group’s journey to Australia and New Zealand, and misplaced all three of its video games in the group stage in 2019.
The first 4 days of the World Cup have produced a string of curiously slim rating strains for a few of the event favorites. A scoreless tie for Canada. A 1-0 win for England, the European champion, in opposition to the World Cup newcomer Haiti. The United States’ 3-0 victory over Vietnam.
Sunday introduced the prospect of the event’s first true shocker. And then identical to that, it was gone.
The scare got here courtesy of South Africa, and striker Hildah Magaia, who bundled a rebound into Sweden’s aim three minutes into the second half to offer her group a shocking 1-0 lead in opposition to Sweden, the world’s third-ranked group. The South African gamers might hardly imagine their luck, and have been quickly celebrating with a dance. Their teaching employees poured off the bench and then dissolved right into a collection of bear hugs.
But then Sweden stormed again. Fridolina Rolfo tied rating with a aim at the again submit in the sixty fifth minute, and defender Amanda Ilestedt obtained the winner with a header off a nook kick in the ninetieth.
Much was made earlier than the World Cup of the potential hole between the eight first-time entrants and the conventional powers. The first week has proven the expertise hole may not be as yawning as some assume.
To a small subset of devoted soccer followers, Sophia Smith’s aim celebration throughout the United States’ 3-0 victory in opposition to Vietnam would have seemed acquainted.
After her second aim in the U.S. group’s 3-0 victory over Vietnam, Smith ran her fingers throughout her lips to zip them and then threw away an imaginary key. It was the similar aim celebration her good good friend and former Stanford teammate Katie Meyer used throughout a penalty shootout at the 2019 N.C.A.A. championship recreation. The gesture by Meyer, Stanford’s goalkeeper and group captain, quickly went viral.
When Stanford gained the penalty shootout that day, Smith ran to Meyer and leaped onto her, inflicting them each to tumble to the floor.
Just over two years later, in March 2022, Meyer was discovered lifeless in her dorm room just a few months earlier than commencement. She had killed herself.
“That was for Katie,” Smith mentioned after the Vietnam recreation, explaining that she and one other former Stanford participant on the U.S. group, Naomi Girma, had deliberate the aim celebration in the days main as much as the World Cup. Both have devoted this event to Meyer.
In Meyer’s reminiscence, Smith and Girma additionally launched a psychological well being care initiative with the nonprofit Common Goal that included filming a public service announcement with a number of of their U.S. teammates. “We just want to honor her in every way,” Smith mentioned.
Vulnerability is an indication of energy, not weak spot. My teammates and I are decided to verify everybody has the assist they want.
Launching the first psychological well being initiative of its form with my pals at @CommonGoalOrg.
This one’s for you Katie ❤️ pic.twitter.com/AoGLUcxeMU
— Naomi Girma (@naomi_girma) July 18, 2023
Smith mentioned Meyer’s dying “changed everything” about her life. It has helped her worth her friendships extra, she mentioned, and put different points into perspective.
“Now I don’t take things too seriously,” mentioned Smith, who left Stanford two years early to play professionally. “I realized that there’s so many more important things happening and the little things that stress me out take a toll on me.”
France arrived in Australia as a World Cup favourite on the mend. Torn aside by bitter feuds, it has in current months misplaced gamers, welcomed them again, and then misplaced them once more. It has modified coaches, modified approaches and modified techniques. And now it has requested Hervé Renard, a revered 54-year-old with a adorned males’s World Cup résumé however no earlier expertise teaching girls, to hold it a minimum of so far as the semifinals.
He began the course of, he mentioned, by being open about what he didn’t know.
“For me everything was new because I didn’t know women’s football, how to manage the girls,” he mentioned. “I was lucky because on our staff a lot of people were already working with women’s football. So I was listening.”
The Women’s World Cup’s latest aim celebration is delayed gratification.
The newest participant to hitch the membership was Stefanie van der Gragt of the Netherlands, who scored her group’s solely aim in a 1-0 victory in opposition to Portugal on Sunday, had it dominated out instantly for offside and then, three lengthy minutes later, had it reinstated after a video assessment.
“It’s always difficult to wait,” van der Gragt mentioned. “But it doesn’t matter: We win, and that’s what is important.”
Van der Gragt’s transient emotional roller-coaster has been echoed in different video games on this event. Sophia Smith of the United States skilled the similar wait a day earlier, when her second aim in opposition to Vietnam was initially disallowed and then returned to her after the officers took a re-examination.
Many occasions, the wait is price it. On Friday, Georgia Stanway of England failed to attain on a penalty kick in opposition to Haiti solely to have one other video assessment grant her a second try, which she transformed. That similar night time, the very same sequence performed out for Riko Ueki of Japan.
In every case, as with Van der Gragt’s aim for the Netherlands on Sunday, the key participant in the wait was soccer’s video assistant referee system. The system was launched a number of years in the past to not re-referee video games, however to make sure that the officers obtained all the massive calls appropriate.
While few would argue with that motivation, the system’s many detractors complain that in making an attempt to do the proper factor, V.A.R. is robbing the recreation of a few of its spontaneity. Penalty choices now routinely take a number of minutes to substantiate as performs are scrutinized once more and once more. Goals are dominated out and then given. Sometimes that leaves gamers ready, and ready, for affirmation that one thing is definitely price celebrating.
Not everybody, although, minds the wait. A couple of minutes earlier than Smith’s delayed-gratification aim in opposition to Vietnam, the United States had been awarded a penalty kick when the match referee, once more utilizing video assessment, overruled her preliminary determination {that a} foul in opposition to Trinity Rodman didn’t benefit a visit to the penalty spot.
United States Coach Vlatko Andonovski mentioned he would by no means complain about the wait to get a name appropriate.
“With all the cameras, with V.A.R., with all the angles that the referees are reviewing, I’m sure that they’re calling the right call,” he mentioned.
The upside for van der Gragt on Sunday? She obtained to have a good time the recreation’s solely aim twice.
Despite a profitable run in worldwide play over the previous few years, France has been in turmoil behind the scenes. In March, the French federation fired its longtime coach, Corinne Diacre, after gamers complained of an unhealthy setting on the group.
Hervé Renard, a well-traveled coach however one who had by no means led a girls’s group, has labored to regular the ship.
But Jamaica, a group enjoying in its second World Cup, stifled that run on Sunday, incomes its first ever level in the standings with an unlikely draw in opposition to France, 0-0. Jamaica had to make use of crowdfunding web sites to lift cash for the group’s journey to Australia and New Zealand, and misplaced all three of its video games in the group stage in 2019.
The first 4 days of the World Cup have produced a string of curiously slim rating strains for a few of the event favorites. A scoreless tie for Canada. A 1-0 win for England, the European champion, in opposition to the World Cup newcomer Haiti. The United States’ 3-0 victory over Vietnam.
Sunday introduced the prospect of the event’s first true shocker. And then identical to that, it was gone.
The scare got here courtesy of South Africa, and striker Hildah Magaia, who bundled a rebound into Sweden’s aim three minutes into the second half to offer her group a shocking 1-0 lead in opposition to Sweden, the world’s third-ranked group. The South African gamers might hardly imagine their luck, and have been quickly celebrating with a dance. Their teaching employees poured off the bench and then dissolved right into a collection of bear hugs.
But then Sweden stormed again. Fridolina Rolfo tied rating with a aim at the again submit in the sixty fifth minute, and defender Amanda Ilestedt obtained the winner with a header off a nook kick in the ninetieth.
Much was made earlier than the World Cup of the potential hole between the eight first-time entrants and the conventional powers. The first week has proven the expertise hole may not be as yawning as some assume.
To a small subset of devoted soccer followers, Sophia Smith’s aim celebration throughout the United States’ 3-0 victory in opposition to Vietnam would have seemed acquainted.
After her second aim in the U.S. group’s 3-0 victory over Vietnam, Smith ran her fingers throughout her lips to zip them and then threw away an imaginary key. It was the similar aim celebration her good good friend and former Stanford teammate Katie Meyer used throughout a penalty shootout at the 2019 N.C.A.A. championship recreation. The gesture by Meyer, Stanford’s goalkeeper and group captain, quickly went viral.
When Stanford gained the penalty shootout that day, Smith ran to Meyer and leaped onto her, inflicting them each to tumble to the floor.
Just over two years later, in March 2022, Meyer was discovered lifeless in her dorm room just a few months earlier than commencement. She had killed herself.
“That was for Katie,” Smith mentioned after the Vietnam recreation, explaining that she and one other former Stanford participant on the U.S. group, Naomi Girma, had deliberate the aim celebration in the days main as much as the World Cup. Both have devoted this event to Meyer.
In Meyer’s reminiscence, Smith and Girma additionally launched a psychological well being care initiative with the nonprofit Common Goal that included filming a public service announcement with a number of of their U.S. teammates. “We just want to honor her in every way,” Smith mentioned.
Vulnerability is an indication of energy, not weak spot. My teammates and I are decided to verify everybody has the assist they want.
Launching the first psychological well being initiative of its form with my pals at @CommonGoalOrg.
This one’s for you Katie ❤️ pic.twitter.com/AoGLUcxeMU
— Naomi Girma (@naomi_girma) July 18, 2023
Smith mentioned Meyer’s dying “changed everything” about her life. It has helped her worth her friendships extra, she mentioned, and put different points into perspective.
“Now I don’t take things too seriously,” mentioned Smith, who left Stanford two years early to play professionally. “I realized that there’s so many more important things happening and the little things that stress me out take a toll on me.”
France arrived in Australia as a World Cup favourite on the mend. Torn aside by bitter feuds, it has in current months misplaced gamers, welcomed them again, and then misplaced them once more. It has modified coaches, modified approaches and modified techniques. And now it has requested Hervé Renard, a revered 54-year-old with a adorned males’s World Cup résumé however no earlier expertise teaching girls, to hold it a minimum of so far as the semifinals.
He began the course of, he mentioned, by being open about what he didn’t know.
“For me everything was new because I didn’t know women’s football, how to manage the girls,” he mentioned. “I was lucky because on our staff a lot of people were already working with women’s football. So I was listening.”
The Women’s World Cup’s latest aim celebration is delayed gratification.
The newest participant to hitch the membership was Stefanie van der Gragt of the Netherlands, who scored her group’s solely aim in a 1-0 victory in opposition to Portugal on Sunday, had it dominated out instantly for offside and then, three lengthy minutes later, had it reinstated after a video assessment.
“It’s always difficult to wait,” van der Gragt mentioned. “But it doesn’t matter: We win, and that’s what is important.”
Van der Gragt’s transient emotional roller-coaster has been echoed in different video games on this event. Sophia Smith of the United States skilled the similar wait a day earlier, when her second aim in opposition to Vietnam was initially disallowed and then returned to her after the officers took a re-examination.
Many occasions, the wait is price it. On Friday, Georgia Stanway of England failed to attain on a penalty kick in opposition to Haiti solely to have one other video assessment grant her a second try, which she transformed. That similar night time, the very same sequence performed out for Riko Ueki of Japan.
In every case, as with Van der Gragt’s aim for the Netherlands on Sunday, the key participant in the wait was soccer’s video assistant referee system. The system was launched a number of years in the past to not re-referee video games, however to make sure that the officers obtained all the massive calls appropriate.
While few would argue with that motivation, the system’s many detractors complain that in making an attempt to do the proper factor, V.A.R. is robbing the recreation of a few of its spontaneity. Penalty choices now routinely take a number of minutes to substantiate as performs are scrutinized once more and once more. Goals are dominated out and then given. Sometimes that leaves gamers ready, and ready, for affirmation that one thing is definitely price celebrating.
Not everybody, although, minds the wait. A couple of minutes earlier than Smith’s delayed-gratification aim in opposition to Vietnam, the United States had been awarded a penalty kick when the match referee, once more utilizing video assessment, overruled her preliminary determination {that a} foul in opposition to Trinity Rodman didn’t benefit a visit to the penalty spot.
United States Coach Vlatko Andonovski mentioned he would by no means complain about the wait to get a name appropriate.
“With all the cameras, with V.A.R., with all the angles that the referees are reviewing, I’m sure that they’re calling the right call,” he mentioned.
The upside for van der Gragt on Sunday? She obtained to have a good time the recreation’s solely aim twice.
Despite a profitable run in worldwide play over the previous few years, France has been in turmoil behind the scenes. In March, the French federation fired its longtime coach, Corinne Diacre, after gamers complained of an unhealthy setting on the group.
Hervé Renard, a well-traveled coach however one who had by no means led a girls’s group, has labored to regular the ship.
But Jamaica, a group enjoying in its second World Cup, stifled that run on Sunday, incomes its first ever level in the standings with an unlikely draw in opposition to France, 0-0. Jamaica had to make use of crowdfunding web sites to lift cash for the group’s journey to Australia and New Zealand, and misplaced all three of its video games in the group stage in 2019.
The first 4 days of the World Cup have produced a string of curiously slim rating strains for a few of the event favorites. A scoreless tie for Canada. A 1-0 win for England, the European champion, in opposition to the World Cup newcomer Haiti. The United States’ 3-0 victory over Vietnam.
Sunday introduced the prospect of the event’s first true shocker. And then identical to that, it was gone.
The scare got here courtesy of South Africa, and striker Hildah Magaia, who bundled a rebound into Sweden’s aim three minutes into the second half to offer her group a shocking 1-0 lead in opposition to Sweden, the world’s third-ranked group. The South African gamers might hardly imagine their luck, and have been quickly celebrating with a dance. Their teaching employees poured off the bench and then dissolved right into a collection of bear hugs.
But then Sweden stormed again. Fridolina Rolfo tied rating with a aim at the again submit in the sixty fifth minute, and defender Amanda Ilestedt obtained the winner with a header off a nook kick in the ninetieth.
Much was made earlier than the World Cup of the potential hole between the eight first-time entrants and the conventional powers. The first week has proven the expertise hole may not be as yawning as some assume.
To a small subset of devoted soccer followers, Sophia Smith’s aim celebration throughout the United States’ 3-0 victory in opposition to Vietnam would have seemed acquainted.
After her second aim in the U.S. group’s 3-0 victory over Vietnam, Smith ran her fingers throughout her lips to zip them and then threw away an imaginary key. It was the similar aim celebration her good good friend and former Stanford teammate Katie Meyer used throughout a penalty shootout at the 2019 N.C.A.A. championship recreation. The gesture by Meyer, Stanford’s goalkeeper and group captain, quickly went viral.
When Stanford gained the penalty shootout that day, Smith ran to Meyer and leaped onto her, inflicting them each to tumble to the floor.
Just over two years later, in March 2022, Meyer was discovered lifeless in her dorm room just a few months earlier than commencement. She had killed herself.
“That was for Katie,” Smith mentioned after the Vietnam recreation, explaining that she and one other former Stanford participant on the U.S. group, Naomi Girma, had deliberate the aim celebration in the days main as much as the World Cup. Both have devoted this event to Meyer.
In Meyer’s reminiscence, Smith and Girma additionally launched a psychological well being care initiative with the nonprofit Common Goal that included filming a public service announcement with a number of of their U.S. teammates. “We just want to honor her in every way,” Smith mentioned.
Vulnerability is an indication of energy, not weak spot. My teammates and I are decided to verify everybody has the assist they want.
Launching the first psychological well being initiative of its form with my pals at @CommonGoalOrg.
This one’s for you Katie ❤️ pic.twitter.com/AoGLUcxeMU
— Naomi Girma (@naomi_girma) July 18, 2023
Smith mentioned Meyer’s dying “changed everything” about her life. It has helped her worth her friendships extra, she mentioned, and put different points into perspective.
“Now I don’t take things too seriously,” mentioned Smith, who left Stanford two years early to play professionally. “I realized that there’s so many more important things happening and the little things that stress me out take a toll on me.”
France arrived in Australia as a World Cup favourite on the mend. Torn aside by bitter feuds, it has in current months misplaced gamers, welcomed them again, and then misplaced them once more. It has modified coaches, modified approaches and modified techniques. And now it has requested Hervé Renard, a revered 54-year-old with a adorned males’s World Cup résumé however no earlier expertise teaching girls, to hold it a minimum of so far as the semifinals.
He began the course of, he mentioned, by being open about what he didn’t know.
“For me everything was new because I didn’t know women’s football, how to manage the girls,” he mentioned. “I was lucky because on our staff a lot of people were already working with women’s football. So I was listening.”
The Women’s World Cup’s latest aim celebration is delayed gratification.
The newest participant to hitch the membership was Stefanie van der Gragt of the Netherlands, who scored her group’s solely aim in a 1-0 victory in opposition to Portugal on Sunday, had it dominated out instantly for offside and then, three lengthy minutes later, had it reinstated after a video assessment.
“It’s always difficult to wait,” van der Gragt mentioned. “But it doesn’t matter: We win, and that’s what is important.”
Van der Gragt’s transient emotional roller-coaster has been echoed in different video games on this event. Sophia Smith of the United States skilled the similar wait a day earlier, when her second aim in opposition to Vietnam was initially disallowed and then returned to her after the officers took a re-examination.
Many occasions, the wait is price it. On Friday, Georgia Stanway of England failed to attain on a penalty kick in opposition to Haiti solely to have one other video assessment grant her a second try, which she transformed. That similar night time, the very same sequence performed out for Riko Ueki of Japan.
In every case, as with Van der Gragt’s aim for the Netherlands on Sunday, the key participant in the wait was soccer’s video assistant referee system. The system was launched a number of years in the past to not re-referee video games, however to make sure that the officers obtained all the massive calls appropriate.
While few would argue with that motivation, the system’s many detractors complain that in making an attempt to do the proper factor, V.A.R. is robbing the recreation of a few of its spontaneity. Penalty choices now routinely take a number of minutes to substantiate as performs are scrutinized once more and once more. Goals are dominated out and then given. Sometimes that leaves gamers ready, and ready, for affirmation that one thing is definitely price celebrating.
Not everybody, although, minds the wait. A couple of minutes earlier than Smith’s delayed-gratification aim in opposition to Vietnam, the United States had been awarded a penalty kick when the match referee, once more utilizing video assessment, overruled her preliminary determination {that a} foul in opposition to Trinity Rodman didn’t benefit a visit to the penalty spot.
United States Coach Vlatko Andonovski mentioned he would by no means complain about the wait to get a name appropriate.
“With all the cameras, with V.A.R., with all the angles that the referees are reviewing, I’m sure that they’re calling the right call,” he mentioned.
The upside for van der Gragt on Sunday? She obtained to have a good time the recreation’s solely aim twice.
Despite a profitable run in worldwide play over the previous few years, France has been in turmoil behind the scenes. In March, the French federation fired its longtime coach, Corinne Diacre, after gamers complained of an unhealthy setting on the group.
Hervé Renard, a well-traveled coach however one who had by no means led a girls’s group, has labored to regular the ship.
But Jamaica, a group enjoying in its second World Cup, stifled that run on Sunday, incomes its first ever level in the standings with an unlikely draw in opposition to France, 0-0. Jamaica had to make use of crowdfunding web sites to lift cash for the group’s journey to Australia and New Zealand, and misplaced all three of its video games in the group stage in 2019.
The first 4 days of the World Cup have produced a string of curiously slim rating strains for a few of the event favorites. A scoreless tie for Canada. A 1-0 win for England, the European champion, in opposition to the World Cup newcomer Haiti. The United States’ 3-0 victory over Vietnam.
Sunday introduced the prospect of the event’s first true shocker. And then identical to that, it was gone.
The scare got here courtesy of South Africa, and striker Hildah Magaia, who bundled a rebound into Sweden’s aim three minutes into the second half to offer her group a shocking 1-0 lead in opposition to Sweden, the world’s third-ranked group. The South African gamers might hardly imagine their luck, and have been quickly celebrating with a dance. Their teaching employees poured off the bench and then dissolved right into a collection of bear hugs.
But then Sweden stormed again. Fridolina Rolfo tied rating with a aim at the again submit in the sixty fifth minute, and defender Amanda Ilestedt obtained the winner with a header off a nook kick in the ninetieth.
Much was made earlier than the World Cup of the potential hole between the eight first-time entrants and the conventional powers. The first week has proven the expertise hole may not be as yawning as some assume.
To a small subset of devoted soccer followers, Sophia Smith’s aim celebration throughout the United States’ 3-0 victory in opposition to Vietnam would have seemed acquainted.
After her second aim in the U.S. group’s 3-0 victory over Vietnam, Smith ran her fingers throughout her lips to zip them and then threw away an imaginary key. It was the similar aim celebration her good good friend and former Stanford teammate Katie Meyer used throughout a penalty shootout at the 2019 N.C.A.A. championship recreation. The gesture by Meyer, Stanford’s goalkeeper and group captain, quickly went viral.
When Stanford gained the penalty shootout that day, Smith ran to Meyer and leaped onto her, inflicting them each to tumble to the floor.
Just over two years later, in March 2022, Meyer was discovered lifeless in her dorm room just a few months earlier than commencement. She had killed herself.
“That was for Katie,” Smith mentioned after the Vietnam recreation, explaining that she and one other former Stanford participant on the U.S. group, Naomi Girma, had deliberate the aim celebration in the days main as much as the World Cup. Both have devoted this event to Meyer.
In Meyer’s reminiscence, Smith and Girma additionally launched a psychological well being care initiative with the nonprofit Common Goal that included filming a public service announcement with a number of of their U.S. teammates. “We just want to honor her in every way,” Smith mentioned.
Vulnerability is an indication of energy, not weak spot. My teammates and I are decided to verify everybody has the assist they want.
Launching the first psychological well being initiative of its form with my pals at @CommonGoalOrg.
This one’s for you Katie ❤️ pic.twitter.com/AoGLUcxeMU
— Naomi Girma (@naomi_girma) July 18, 2023
Smith mentioned Meyer’s dying “changed everything” about her life. It has helped her worth her friendships extra, she mentioned, and put different points into perspective.
“Now I don’t take things too seriously,” mentioned Smith, who left Stanford two years early to play professionally. “I realized that there’s so many more important things happening and the little things that stress me out take a toll on me.”
France arrived in Australia as a World Cup favourite on the mend. Torn aside by bitter feuds, it has in current months misplaced gamers, welcomed them again, and then misplaced them once more. It has modified coaches, modified approaches and modified techniques. And now it has requested Hervé Renard, a revered 54-year-old with a adorned males’s World Cup résumé however no earlier expertise teaching girls, to hold it a minimum of so far as the semifinals.
He began the course of, he mentioned, by being open about what he didn’t know.
“For me everything was new because I didn’t know women’s football, how to manage the girls,” he mentioned. “I was lucky because on our staff a lot of people were already working with women’s football. So I was listening.”
The Women’s World Cup’s latest aim celebration is delayed gratification.
The newest participant to hitch the membership was Stefanie van der Gragt of the Netherlands, who scored her group’s solely aim in a 1-0 victory in opposition to Portugal on Sunday, had it dominated out instantly for offside and then, three lengthy minutes later, had it reinstated after a video assessment.
“It’s always difficult to wait,” van der Gragt mentioned. “But it doesn’t matter: We win, and that’s what is important.”
Van der Gragt’s transient emotional roller-coaster has been echoed in different video games on this event. Sophia Smith of the United States skilled the similar wait a day earlier, when her second aim in opposition to Vietnam was initially disallowed and then returned to her after the officers took a re-examination.
Many occasions, the wait is price it. On Friday, Georgia Stanway of England failed to attain on a penalty kick in opposition to Haiti solely to have one other video assessment grant her a second try, which she transformed. That similar night time, the very same sequence performed out for Riko Ueki of Japan.
In every case, as with Van der Gragt’s aim for the Netherlands on Sunday, the key participant in the wait was soccer’s video assistant referee system. The system was launched a number of years in the past to not re-referee video games, however to make sure that the officers obtained all the massive calls appropriate.
While few would argue with that motivation, the system’s many detractors complain that in making an attempt to do the proper factor, V.A.R. is robbing the recreation of a few of its spontaneity. Penalty choices now routinely take a number of minutes to substantiate as performs are scrutinized once more and once more. Goals are dominated out and then given. Sometimes that leaves gamers ready, and ready, for affirmation that one thing is definitely price celebrating.
Not everybody, although, minds the wait. A couple of minutes earlier than Smith’s delayed-gratification aim in opposition to Vietnam, the United States had been awarded a penalty kick when the match referee, once more utilizing video assessment, overruled her preliminary determination {that a} foul in opposition to Trinity Rodman didn’t benefit a visit to the penalty spot.
United States Coach Vlatko Andonovski mentioned he would by no means complain about the wait to get a name appropriate.
“With all the cameras, with V.A.R., with all the angles that the referees are reviewing, I’m sure that they’re calling the right call,” he mentioned.
The upside for van der Gragt on Sunday? She obtained to have a good time the recreation’s solely aim twice.
Despite a profitable run in worldwide play over the previous few years, France has been in turmoil behind the scenes. In March, the French federation fired its longtime coach, Corinne Diacre, after gamers complained of an unhealthy setting on the group.
Hervé Renard, a well-traveled coach however one who had by no means led a girls’s group, has labored to regular the ship.
But Jamaica, a group enjoying in its second World Cup, stifled that run on Sunday, incomes its first ever level in the standings with an unlikely draw in opposition to France, 0-0. Jamaica had to make use of crowdfunding web sites to lift cash for the group’s journey to Australia and New Zealand, and misplaced all three of its video games in the group stage in 2019.
The first 4 days of the World Cup have produced a string of curiously slim rating strains for a few of the event favorites. A scoreless tie for Canada. A 1-0 win for England, the European champion, in opposition to the World Cup newcomer Haiti. The United States’ 3-0 victory over Vietnam.
Sunday introduced the prospect of the event’s first true shocker. And then identical to that, it was gone.
The scare got here courtesy of South Africa, and striker Hildah Magaia, who bundled a rebound into Sweden’s aim three minutes into the second half to offer her group a shocking 1-0 lead in opposition to Sweden, the world’s third-ranked group. The South African gamers might hardly imagine their luck, and have been quickly celebrating with a dance. Their teaching employees poured off the bench and then dissolved right into a collection of bear hugs.
But then Sweden stormed again. Fridolina Rolfo tied rating with a aim at the again submit in the sixty fifth minute, and defender Amanda Ilestedt obtained the winner with a header off a nook kick in the ninetieth.
Much was made earlier than the World Cup of the potential hole between the eight first-time entrants and the conventional powers. The first week has proven the expertise hole may not be as yawning as some assume.
To a small subset of devoted soccer followers, Sophia Smith’s aim celebration throughout the United States’ 3-0 victory in opposition to Vietnam would have seemed acquainted.
After her second aim in the U.S. group’s 3-0 victory over Vietnam, Smith ran her fingers throughout her lips to zip them and then threw away an imaginary key. It was the similar aim celebration her good good friend and former Stanford teammate Katie Meyer used throughout a penalty shootout at the 2019 N.C.A.A. championship recreation. The gesture by Meyer, Stanford’s goalkeeper and group captain, quickly went viral.
When Stanford gained the penalty shootout that day, Smith ran to Meyer and leaped onto her, inflicting them each to tumble to the floor.
Just over two years later, in March 2022, Meyer was discovered lifeless in her dorm room just a few months earlier than commencement. She had killed herself.
“That was for Katie,” Smith mentioned after the Vietnam recreation, explaining that she and one other former Stanford participant on the U.S. group, Naomi Girma, had deliberate the aim celebration in the days main as much as the World Cup. Both have devoted this event to Meyer.
In Meyer’s reminiscence, Smith and Girma additionally launched a psychological well being care initiative with the nonprofit Common Goal that included filming a public service announcement with a number of of their U.S. teammates. “We just want to honor her in every way,” Smith mentioned.
Vulnerability is an indication of energy, not weak spot. My teammates and I are decided to verify everybody has the assist they want.
Launching the first psychological well being initiative of its form with my pals at @CommonGoalOrg.
This one’s for you Katie ❤️ pic.twitter.com/AoGLUcxeMU
— Naomi Girma (@naomi_girma) July 18, 2023
Smith mentioned Meyer’s dying “changed everything” about her life. It has helped her worth her friendships extra, she mentioned, and put different points into perspective.
“Now I don’t take things too seriously,” mentioned Smith, who left Stanford two years early to play professionally. “I realized that there’s so many more important things happening and the little things that stress me out take a toll on me.”
France arrived in Australia as a World Cup favourite on the mend. Torn aside by bitter feuds, it has in current months misplaced gamers, welcomed them again, and then misplaced them once more. It has modified coaches, modified approaches and modified techniques. And now it has requested Hervé Renard, a revered 54-year-old with a adorned males’s World Cup résumé however no earlier expertise teaching girls, to hold it a minimum of so far as the semifinals.
He began the course of, he mentioned, by being open about what he didn’t know.
“For me everything was new because I didn’t know women’s football, how to manage the girls,” he mentioned. “I was lucky because on our staff a lot of people were already working with women’s football. So I was listening.”
The Women’s World Cup’s latest aim celebration is delayed gratification.
The newest participant to hitch the membership was Stefanie van der Gragt of the Netherlands, who scored her group’s solely aim in a 1-0 victory in opposition to Portugal on Sunday, had it dominated out instantly for offside and then, three lengthy minutes later, had it reinstated after a video assessment.
“It’s always difficult to wait,” van der Gragt mentioned. “But it doesn’t matter: We win, and that’s what is important.”
Van der Gragt’s transient emotional roller-coaster has been echoed in different video games on this event. Sophia Smith of the United States skilled the similar wait a day earlier, when her second aim in opposition to Vietnam was initially disallowed and then returned to her after the officers took a re-examination.
Many occasions, the wait is price it. On Friday, Georgia Stanway of England failed to attain on a penalty kick in opposition to Haiti solely to have one other video assessment grant her a second try, which she transformed. That similar night time, the very same sequence performed out for Riko Ueki of Japan.
In every case, as with Van der Gragt’s aim for the Netherlands on Sunday, the key participant in the wait was soccer’s video assistant referee system. The system was launched a number of years in the past to not re-referee video games, however to make sure that the officers obtained all the massive calls appropriate.
While few would argue with that motivation, the system’s many detractors complain that in making an attempt to do the proper factor, V.A.R. is robbing the recreation of a few of its spontaneity. Penalty choices now routinely take a number of minutes to substantiate as performs are scrutinized once more and once more. Goals are dominated out and then given. Sometimes that leaves gamers ready, and ready, for affirmation that one thing is definitely price celebrating.
Not everybody, although, minds the wait. A couple of minutes earlier than Smith’s delayed-gratification aim in opposition to Vietnam, the United States had been awarded a penalty kick when the match referee, once more utilizing video assessment, overruled her preliminary determination {that a} foul in opposition to Trinity Rodman didn’t benefit a visit to the penalty spot.
United States Coach Vlatko Andonovski mentioned he would by no means complain about the wait to get a name appropriate.
“With all the cameras, with V.A.R., with all the angles that the referees are reviewing, I’m sure that they’re calling the right call,” he mentioned.
The upside for van der Gragt on Sunday? She obtained to have a good time the recreation’s solely aim twice.
Despite a profitable run in worldwide play over the previous few years, France has been in turmoil behind the scenes. In March, the French federation fired its longtime coach, Corinne Diacre, after gamers complained of an unhealthy setting on the group.
Hervé Renard, a well-traveled coach however one who had by no means led a girls’s group, has labored to regular the ship.
But Jamaica, a group enjoying in its second World Cup, stifled that run on Sunday, incomes its first ever level in the standings with an unlikely draw in opposition to France, 0-0. Jamaica had to make use of crowdfunding web sites to lift cash for the group’s journey to Australia and New Zealand, and misplaced all three of its video games in the group stage in 2019.
The first 4 days of the World Cup have produced a string of curiously slim rating strains for a few of the event favorites. A scoreless tie for Canada. A 1-0 win for England, the European champion, in opposition to the World Cup newcomer Haiti. The United States’ 3-0 victory over Vietnam.
Sunday introduced the prospect of the event’s first true shocker. And then identical to that, it was gone.
The scare got here courtesy of South Africa, and striker Hildah Magaia, who bundled a rebound into Sweden’s aim three minutes into the second half to offer her group a shocking 1-0 lead in opposition to Sweden, the world’s third-ranked group. The South African gamers might hardly imagine their luck, and have been quickly celebrating with a dance. Their teaching employees poured off the bench and then dissolved right into a collection of bear hugs.
But then Sweden stormed again. Fridolina Rolfo tied rating with a aim at the again submit in the sixty fifth minute, and defender Amanda Ilestedt obtained the winner with a header off a nook kick in the ninetieth.
Much was made earlier than the World Cup of the potential hole between the eight first-time entrants and the conventional powers. The first week has proven the expertise hole may not be as yawning as some assume.
To a small subset of devoted soccer followers, Sophia Smith’s aim celebration throughout the United States’ 3-0 victory in opposition to Vietnam would have seemed acquainted.
After her second aim in the U.S. group’s 3-0 victory over Vietnam, Smith ran her fingers throughout her lips to zip them and then threw away an imaginary key. It was the similar aim celebration her good good friend and former Stanford teammate Katie Meyer used throughout a penalty shootout at the 2019 N.C.A.A. championship recreation. The gesture by Meyer, Stanford’s goalkeeper and group captain, quickly went viral.
When Stanford gained the penalty shootout that day, Smith ran to Meyer and leaped onto her, inflicting them each to tumble to the floor.
Just over two years later, in March 2022, Meyer was discovered lifeless in her dorm room just a few months earlier than commencement. She had killed herself.
“That was for Katie,” Smith mentioned after the Vietnam recreation, explaining that she and one other former Stanford participant on the U.S. group, Naomi Girma, had deliberate the aim celebration in the days main as much as the World Cup. Both have devoted this event to Meyer.
In Meyer’s reminiscence, Smith and Girma additionally launched a psychological well being care initiative with the nonprofit Common Goal that included filming a public service announcement with a number of of their U.S. teammates. “We just want to honor her in every way,” Smith mentioned.
Vulnerability is an indication of energy, not weak spot. My teammates and I are decided to verify everybody has the assist they want.
Launching the first psychological well being initiative of its form with my pals at @CommonGoalOrg.
This one’s for you Katie ❤️ pic.twitter.com/AoGLUcxeMU
— Naomi Girma (@naomi_girma) July 18, 2023
Smith mentioned Meyer’s dying “changed everything” about her life. It has helped her worth her friendships extra, she mentioned, and put different points into perspective.
“Now I don’t take things too seriously,” mentioned Smith, who left Stanford two years early to play professionally. “I realized that there’s so many more important things happening and the little things that stress me out take a toll on me.”
France arrived in Australia as a World Cup favourite on the mend. Torn aside by bitter feuds, it has in current months misplaced gamers, welcomed them again, and then misplaced them once more. It has modified coaches, modified approaches and modified techniques. And now it has requested Hervé Renard, a revered 54-year-old with a adorned males’s World Cup résumé however no earlier expertise teaching girls, to hold it a minimum of so far as the semifinals.
He began the course of, he mentioned, by being open about what he didn’t know.
“For me everything was new because I didn’t know women’s football, how to manage the girls,” he mentioned. “I was lucky because on our staff a lot of people were already working with women’s football. So I was listening.”
The Women’s World Cup’s latest aim celebration is delayed gratification.
The newest participant to hitch the membership was Stefanie van der Gragt of the Netherlands, who scored her group’s solely aim in a 1-0 victory in opposition to Portugal on Sunday, had it dominated out instantly for offside and then, three lengthy minutes later, had it reinstated after a video assessment.
“It’s always difficult to wait,” van der Gragt mentioned. “But it doesn’t matter: We win, and that’s what is important.”
Van der Gragt’s transient emotional roller-coaster has been echoed in different video games on this event. Sophia Smith of the United States skilled the similar wait a day earlier, when her second aim in opposition to Vietnam was initially disallowed and then returned to her after the officers took a re-examination.
Many occasions, the wait is price it. On Friday, Georgia Stanway of England failed to attain on a penalty kick in opposition to Haiti solely to have one other video assessment grant her a second try, which she transformed. That similar night time, the very same sequence performed out for Riko Ueki of Japan.
In every case, as with Van der Gragt’s aim for the Netherlands on Sunday, the key participant in the wait was soccer’s video assistant referee system. The system was launched a number of years in the past to not re-referee video games, however to make sure that the officers obtained all the massive calls appropriate.
While few would argue with that motivation, the system’s many detractors complain that in making an attempt to do the proper factor, V.A.R. is robbing the recreation of a few of its spontaneity. Penalty choices now routinely take a number of minutes to substantiate as performs are scrutinized once more and once more. Goals are dominated out and then given. Sometimes that leaves gamers ready, and ready, for affirmation that one thing is definitely price celebrating.
Not everybody, although, minds the wait. A couple of minutes earlier than Smith’s delayed-gratification aim in opposition to Vietnam, the United States had been awarded a penalty kick when the match referee, once more utilizing video assessment, overruled her preliminary determination {that a} foul in opposition to Trinity Rodman didn’t benefit a visit to the penalty spot.
United States Coach Vlatko Andonovski mentioned he would by no means complain about the wait to get a name appropriate.
“With all the cameras, with V.A.R., with all the angles that the referees are reviewing, I’m sure that they’re calling the right call,” he mentioned.
The upside for van der Gragt on Sunday? She obtained to have a good time the recreation’s solely aim twice.
Despite a profitable run in worldwide play over the previous few years, France has been in turmoil behind the scenes. In March, the French federation fired its longtime coach, Corinne Diacre, after gamers complained of an unhealthy setting on the group.
Hervé Renard, a well-traveled coach however one who had by no means led a girls’s group, has labored to regular the ship.
But Jamaica, a group enjoying in its second World Cup, stifled that run on Sunday, incomes its first ever level in the standings with an unlikely draw in opposition to France, 0-0. Jamaica had to make use of crowdfunding web sites to lift cash for the group’s journey to Australia and New Zealand, and misplaced all three of its video games in the group stage in 2019.
The first 4 days of the World Cup have produced a string of curiously slim rating strains for a few of the event favorites. A scoreless tie for Canada. A 1-0 win for England, the European champion, in opposition to the World Cup newcomer Haiti. The United States’ 3-0 victory over Vietnam.
Sunday introduced the prospect of the event’s first true shocker. And then identical to that, it was gone.
The scare got here courtesy of South Africa, and striker Hildah Magaia, who bundled a rebound into Sweden’s aim three minutes into the second half to offer her group a shocking 1-0 lead in opposition to Sweden, the world’s third-ranked group. The South African gamers might hardly imagine their luck, and have been quickly celebrating with a dance. Their teaching employees poured off the bench and then dissolved right into a collection of bear hugs.
But then Sweden stormed again. Fridolina Rolfo tied rating with a aim at the again submit in the sixty fifth minute, and defender Amanda Ilestedt obtained the winner with a header off a nook kick in the ninetieth.
Much was made earlier than the World Cup of the potential hole between the eight first-time entrants and the conventional powers. The first week has proven the expertise hole may not be as yawning as some assume.
To a small subset of devoted soccer followers, Sophia Smith’s aim celebration throughout the United States’ 3-0 victory in opposition to Vietnam would have seemed acquainted.
After her second aim in the U.S. group’s 3-0 victory over Vietnam, Smith ran her fingers throughout her lips to zip them and then threw away an imaginary key. It was the similar aim celebration her good good friend and former Stanford teammate Katie Meyer used throughout a penalty shootout at the 2019 N.C.A.A. championship recreation. The gesture by Meyer, Stanford’s goalkeeper and group captain, quickly went viral.
When Stanford gained the penalty shootout that day, Smith ran to Meyer and leaped onto her, inflicting them each to tumble to the floor.
Just over two years later, in March 2022, Meyer was discovered lifeless in her dorm room just a few months earlier than commencement. She had killed herself.
“That was for Katie,” Smith mentioned after the Vietnam recreation, explaining that she and one other former Stanford participant on the U.S. group, Naomi Girma, had deliberate the aim celebration in the days main as much as the World Cup. Both have devoted this event to Meyer.
In Meyer’s reminiscence, Smith and Girma additionally launched a psychological well being care initiative with the nonprofit Common Goal that included filming a public service announcement with a number of of their U.S. teammates. “We just want to honor her in every way,” Smith mentioned.
Vulnerability is an indication of energy, not weak spot. My teammates and I are decided to verify everybody has the assist they want.
Launching the first psychological well being initiative of its form with my pals at @CommonGoalOrg.
This one’s for you Katie ❤️ pic.twitter.com/AoGLUcxeMU
— Naomi Girma (@naomi_girma) July 18, 2023
Smith mentioned Meyer’s dying “changed everything” about her life. It has helped her worth her friendships extra, she mentioned, and put different points into perspective.
“Now I don’t take things too seriously,” mentioned Smith, who left Stanford two years early to play professionally. “I realized that there’s so many more important things happening and the little things that stress me out take a toll on me.”
France arrived in Australia as a World Cup favourite on the mend. Torn aside by bitter feuds, it has in current months misplaced gamers, welcomed them again, and then misplaced them once more. It has modified coaches, modified approaches and modified techniques. And now it has requested Hervé Renard, a revered 54-year-old with a adorned males’s World Cup résumé however no earlier expertise teaching girls, to hold it a minimum of so far as the semifinals.
He began the course of, he mentioned, by being open about what he didn’t know.
“For me everything was new because I didn’t know women’s football, how to manage the girls,” he mentioned. “I was lucky because on our staff a lot of people were already working with women’s football. So I was listening.”
The Women’s World Cup’s latest aim celebration is delayed gratification.
The newest participant to hitch the membership was Stefanie van der Gragt of the Netherlands, who scored her group’s solely aim in a 1-0 victory in opposition to Portugal on Sunday, had it dominated out instantly for offside and then, three lengthy minutes later, had it reinstated after a video assessment.
“It’s always difficult to wait,” van der Gragt mentioned. “But it doesn’t matter: We win, and that’s what is important.”
Van der Gragt’s transient emotional roller-coaster has been echoed in different video games on this event. Sophia Smith of the United States skilled the similar wait a day earlier, when her second aim in opposition to Vietnam was initially disallowed and then returned to her after the officers took a re-examination.
Many occasions, the wait is price it. On Friday, Georgia Stanway of England failed to attain on a penalty kick in opposition to Haiti solely to have one other video assessment grant her a second try, which she transformed. That similar night time, the very same sequence performed out for Riko Ueki of Japan.
In every case, as with Van der Gragt’s aim for the Netherlands on Sunday, the key participant in the wait was soccer’s video assistant referee system. The system was launched a number of years in the past to not re-referee video games, however to make sure that the officers obtained all the massive calls appropriate.
While few would argue with that motivation, the system’s many detractors complain that in making an attempt to do the proper factor, V.A.R. is robbing the recreation of a few of its spontaneity. Penalty choices now routinely take a number of minutes to substantiate as performs are scrutinized once more and once more. Goals are dominated out and then given. Sometimes that leaves gamers ready, and ready, for affirmation that one thing is definitely price celebrating.
Not everybody, although, minds the wait. A couple of minutes earlier than Smith’s delayed-gratification aim in opposition to Vietnam, the United States had been awarded a penalty kick when the match referee, once more utilizing video assessment, overruled her preliminary determination {that a} foul in opposition to Trinity Rodman didn’t benefit a visit to the penalty spot.
United States Coach Vlatko Andonovski mentioned he would by no means complain about the wait to get a name appropriate.
“With all the cameras, with V.A.R., with all the angles that the referees are reviewing, I’m sure that they’re calling the right call,” he mentioned.
The upside for van der Gragt on Sunday? She obtained to have a good time the recreation’s solely aim twice.
Despite a profitable run in worldwide play over the previous few years, France has been in turmoil behind the scenes. In March, the French federation fired its longtime coach, Corinne Diacre, after gamers complained of an unhealthy setting on the group.
Hervé Renard, a well-traveled coach however one who had by no means led a girls’s group, has labored to regular the ship.
But Jamaica, a group enjoying in its second World Cup, stifled that run on Sunday, incomes its first ever level in the standings with an unlikely draw in opposition to France, 0-0. Jamaica had to make use of crowdfunding web sites to lift cash for the group’s journey to Australia and New Zealand, and misplaced all three of its video games in the group stage in 2019.
The first 4 days of the World Cup have produced a string of curiously slim rating strains for a few of the event favorites. A scoreless tie for Canada. A 1-0 win for England, the European champion, in opposition to the World Cup newcomer Haiti. The United States’ 3-0 victory over Vietnam.
Sunday introduced the prospect of the event’s first true shocker. And then identical to that, it was gone.
The scare got here courtesy of South Africa, and striker Hildah Magaia, who bundled a rebound into Sweden’s aim three minutes into the second half to offer her group a shocking 1-0 lead in opposition to Sweden, the world’s third-ranked group. The South African gamers might hardly imagine their luck, and have been quickly celebrating with a dance. Their teaching employees poured off the bench and then dissolved right into a collection of bear hugs.
But then Sweden stormed again. Fridolina Rolfo tied rating with a aim at the again submit in the sixty fifth minute, and defender Amanda Ilestedt obtained the winner with a header off a nook kick in the ninetieth.
Much was made earlier than the World Cup of the potential hole between the eight first-time entrants and the conventional powers. The first week has proven the expertise hole may not be as yawning as some assume.
To a small subset of devoted soccer followers, Sophia Smith’s aim celebration throughout the United States’ 3-0 victory in opposition to Vietnam would have seemed acquainted.
After her second aim in the U.S. group’s 3-0 victory over Vietnam, Smith ran her fingers throughout her lips to zip them and then threw away an imaginary key. It was the similar aim celebration her good good friend and former Stanford teammate Katie Meyer used throughout a penalty shootout at the 2019 N.C.A.A. championship recreation. The gesture by Meyer, Stanford’s goalkeeper and group captain, quickly went viral.
When Stanford gained the penalty shootout that day, Smith ran to Meyer and leaped onto her, inflicting them each to tumble to the floor.
Just over two years later, in March 2022, Meyer was discovered lifeless in her dorm room just a few months earlier than commencement. She had killed herself.
“That was for Katie,” Smith mentioned after the Vietnam recreation, explaining that she and one other former Stanford participant on the U.S. group, Naomi Girma, had deliberate the aim celebration in the days main as much as the World Cup. Both have devoted this event to Meyer.
In Meyer’s reminiscence, Smith and Girma additionally launched a psychological well being care initiative with the nonprofit Common Goal that included filming a public service announcement with a number of of their U.S. teammates. “We just want to honor her in every way,” Smith mentioned.
Vulnerability is an indication of energy, not weak spot. My teammates and I are decided to verify everybody has the assist they want.
Launching the first psychological well being initiative of its form with my pals at @CommonGoalOrg.
This one’s for you Katie ❤️ pic.twitter.com/AoGLUcxeMU
— Naomi Girma (@naomi_girma) July 18, 2023
Smith mentioned Meyer’s dying “changed everything” about her life. It has helped her worth her friendships extra, she mentioned, and put different points into perspective.
“Now I don’t take things too seriously,” mentioned Smith, who left Stanford two years early to play professionally. “I realized that there’s so many more important things happening and the little things that stress me out take a toll on me.”
France arrived in Australia as a World Cup favourite on the mend. Torn aside by bitter feuds, it has in current months misplaced gamers, welcomed them again, and then misplaced them once more. It has modified coaches, modified approaches and modified techniques. And now it has requested Hervé Renard, a revered 54-year-old with a adorned males’s World Cup résumé however no earlier expertise teaching girls, to hold it a minimum of so far as the semifinals.
He began the course of, he mentioned, by being open about what he didn’t know.
“For me everything was new because I didn’t know women’s football, how to manage the girls,” he mentioned. “I was lucky because on our staff a lot of people were already working with women’s football. So I was listening.”
Discussion about this post