HOFFARTH: Plenty to get caught up in with US women's soccer team
In a parallel universe, Pia Sundhage is Pete Carroll. The wavy, gray-hair helmet and a positive vibe are just the beginning.
Christie Rampone is Captain America. The ultimate soccer mom.
Hope Solo is a new-breed Star Wars action figure, with steely blue eyes, a well-placed mole on her upper lip, waxed eyebrows and a killer app to match.
Abby Wambach is the professor. She's into head games. It's all cerebral. Some have said her forehead deserves a shoe contract. No butts about it.
Megan Rapinoe is the peroxide blonde terrier who comes off the bench and lobs those poetic, left-footed passes at Wambach's cranium. Just like a video game.
Alex Morgan is the farmer's daughter, a sweet, young, 22-year-old from Diamond Bar High. You think she knows we can see her pink sports bra through her white No. 13 jersey? The matching pink headband holding it all together is such a Paula Creamer move.
Lauren Cheney, UCLA certified, has the deft touch around the net. Amy Rodriguez, USC branded, has the defense backpedaling down the sidelines.
Shannon Boxx and Stephanie Cox, ready to pose for a Wheaties box. Heather O'Reilly and Kelley O'Hara, all set to pose for a picture with Obama.
And don't forget the irrepressible Heather Mitts. We know you're on the bench somewhere. Please, come out and play.
The clock is ticking down to kickoff, but it's not too late to get to know your U.S. women's World Cup kickballers.
This is another odd year for American soccer, which means that, according to the quadrennial sundials, the spotlight shines on the females again. It's a year since the men were eliminated in their first match after group play in the World Cup.
For the first time in a dozen years, the U.S. women are poised to pounce. It's carpe Deutschland.
Back in 1999, when the squad clinched the women's World Cup title at the Rose Bowl on penalty kicks against China, that was Brandi Chastain unchained. In 1991, in the very first Cup final, that was the Hamm-and-Akers group. All business.
Now, in 2011, there are a new characters to identify with. This season of American idolizing is greater than just patronizing what's patriotic. It's about playing it forward.
Historically, the U.S. women never settle for second-best. Since the first Cup final was played, it's either been a title or a third-place consolation ribbon for the team.
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Bret Hartman / AP Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder David Beckham, left, jokes around with Real Madrid midfielder Kaka during the first half of an exhibition soccer match, Saturday, July 16, 2011, at Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles.
Check out David Beckham's pink-and-white soccer cleats. No clue why he chose pink for his match against his old team Real Madrid, but a closeup shows that he has all four of his childrens' name embroidered on the shoes:
Southern Californians have one heck of a soccer groupon to cash in this weekend - the women's World Cup finale comes hours after Beckham and Donovan's Galaxy faced Kaka and Ronaldo's Real Madrid at the Coliseum and Chivas USA took on Thierry Henry and
The game is part of a three-week summer tour across North America that includes EPL powerhouse Manchester United along with Spanish teams such as FC Barcelona and Real Madrid. Wright-Phillips, in his second stint with Manchester City, got the Blues off
In town to face the LA Galaxy in a friendly on Saturday night, vaunted Spanish soccer club Real Madrid has apparently been training on the UCLA campus in preparation for the match. Word must have leaked on campus that global sporting heartthrobs like
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Friendly Match – Pre Season (World Football Challenge) :: Real Madrid’s superstars warm up ahead of the new La Liga season against former galactico David Beckham and his LA Galaxy side at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
LA Galaxy vs Real Madrid meet again as part of a series of club international friendlies called the “2011 Herbalife World Football Challenge”. The LA Galaxy, in conjunction with Major League Soccer, CAA Sports and Multimedia Sports, announced today the club will return to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for the first time since 2007 to take on Spanish power Real Madrid on Saturday, July 16 at 7 p.m. as part of the 2011 World Football Challenge
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