Smeags said:
Seriously. I still remember when they won the 1999 World Cup against China. My sister had all the Mia Hamm posters. I've always loved our girls. The guys need to step up. |
Yes, I've been following women's football over the past two decades and it's fun to follow the development of national teams in this sport. Currently France, Canada are catching up to the leading countries USA, Japan, Germany and Brazil, the once top female football nations Sweden and Norway are falling behind a bit atm it seems. It's also interesting to see that South European countries which are huge in men's football (Spain, Italy, Portugal) and important Middle and South American football nations like Mexico and Argentina still don't play a real role in women's football (a female German football national player once said there's a simple reason for this: These are macho countries).
The US team is the only one that was on top all of the past 21 years. Only Germany came close (Olympics not counted), but still not close enough.
Mia Hamm was the dominating player of the 90s. After her retirement Germany's Birgit Prinz became the women's football superstar and today it's Brazil's Marta (who still needs to win a big title to really be considered a legend like Hamm, Prinz or Wambach).
Also: Hope Solo is the sexiest goalkeeper ever. What a name, what a beauty. http://tinyurl.com/cdonk6f
