Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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The USWNT didn't start with a World Cup: it started with a fight for a spot at the table. 

1985. Women's college soccer was thriving, but life after graduation? There was nothing.

A movement inside U.S. Soccer pushed women's soccer into the National Sports Festival. 3,000+ athletes, 34 sports, Olympic-level prestige.
That one decision changed American soccer history forever.
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