When Sweden took a 5–0 lead over Cuba at the 1938 men’s World Cup in France, French journalist Emmanuel Gambardella shut his typewriter and declared: “Up to five goals is journalism. After that, it is statistics.”
Gambardella would have stopped typing inside the opening half-hour of the U-17 U.S. women’s national team’s World Cup opener against Samoa on Monday. Had everyone else watching on in Morocco followed suit, they would have missed 12 more goals and the full scale of Maddie DiMaria’s remarkable achievement.
