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The Latest Breaking News from Megan Rapinoe

Trio of Key Players Cleared for USWNT World Cup Opener

The U.S. is at full health heading into its World Cup opener against Vietnam.

Sports Illustrated

Q&A: World Cup champ Tobin Heath on USWNT’s 3-peat expectations, Megan Rapinoe’s retirement

For The Win spoke with 2-time World Cup champion Tobin Heath about the USWNT in the 2023 tournament.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Megan Rapinoe: The legendary US attacker and LGBT+ rights activist in profile

An icon of the women’s game, the USWNT winger will retire at the end of the season

The Independent UK

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Who is Alex Morgan? The prolific USWNT striker in profile

San Diego Wave forward burst onto the scene at the 2011 World Cup and has since become an icon of the women’s game

The Independent UK

First Thing: July likely to be hottest month on record, says Nasa

Gavin Schmidt of Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies warns of likelihood of new high as heatwave bakes large parts of planet. Plus, the beginning of the end for the great Megan Rapinoe

The Guardian - UK

Rapinoe's farewell begins with the U.S. team's opening Women's World Cup match against Vietnam

Megan Rapinoe’s final run on the global stage begins Saturday when the United States opens its quest to win an unprecedented third consecutive Women’s World Cup title

The Independent UK

The U.S. begins its quest for a World Cup three-peat by taking on Vietnam

The USWNT is hoping its mix of veterans and rookies will become the first team to win three straight World Cups. They'll start by taking on a nation playing in its very first.

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Greg Cote: Why U.S. women’s soccer stands for more than a team and is an historic reign worth cheering

“The rest of the world is catching up.”

Miami Herald

Sophia Smith, Naomi Girma and the USWNT's young stars are poised to break out at the World Cup

AUCKLAND, New. Zealand — Not since the earliest years of the U.S. women's soccer team has a squad arrived at a World Cup with this much glittering young potential.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

USWNT is poised to kick off the Women's World Cup knowing a three-peat will be tough

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — For as long as she can remember, Sophia Smith has dreamt of playing for the U.S. in a World Cup. As a young girl growing up in northern Colorado, she planned for it, she practiced it, she even acted it out in her backyard.

Los Angeles Times

The great, transformative Megan Rapinoe prepares to go out on her own terms

The USA forward has changed soccer for ever, on and off the pitch. Now she faces one final challenge as her team look to win a third successive World Cup

The Guardian - US

Women soccer players were promised at least $30,000 to play in this year’s World Cup. Now FIFA is backtracking on its pledge

The announcement comes on the eve of the Women’s World Cup, where women players earn a quarter of what men do.

Fortune

How Becky Sauerbrunn Prepared the USWNT to Succeed Without Its Captain America

Guided by past trials and disappointments of her own, the captain knew the importance of planning ahead long before her injury left her off the World Cup roster.

Sports Illustrated

Megan Rapinoe and the USWNT’s veterans are at the World Cup to win — and mentor ‘the next generation’

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Much has been made of the U.S. women’s soccer team’s “old guard” at this World Cup, and for good reason.

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A Spanish test and an attacking explosion: our writers’ US World Cup predictions

The defending champions are looking to win a third successive title. But injuries and some tough opponents stand in their way

The Independent UK

Rachel Daly or Alessia Russo for England? I know who I would start at the World Cup

Ahead of England’s World Cup opener against Haiti, Lionesses legend Kelly Smith looks at the biggest selection decision facing Sarina Wiegman this summer

Al Jazeera

Women’s World Cup: Who can dethrone the US football team?

The long-dominant USA faces a tough challenge from other rising teams amid injuries, inexperience and an evolving sport.

Tribune News Service

Former U.S. National Team coach Jill Ellis breaks down this year's Women's World Cup

SAN DIEGO — One thing's for sure about this year's Women's World Cup:

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Miami Herald

Everything you need to know as 2023 Women’s World Cup kicks off Down Under

MIAMI — The Women’s World Cup kicks off Thursday in Australia and New Zealand, which means soccer fans in the United States will be setting early morning alarms, as they did for the 2022 men’s World Cup in Qatar and as diehard tennis fans do for the Australian Open.

The Independent UK

Everything to know about Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird’s relationship, from Olympic first meeting to engagement

US football star proposed to basketball star in 2020, seven days after saying she’d marry her

The Independent UK

Why this Women’s World Cup will be unlike anything we’ve seen before

The staging of the first 32-team Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand presents fresh challenges, but a supreme cast of talent and a wide-open tournament can take the game to new heights, writes Miguel Delaney

WEKU

5 storylines to watch as the Women's World Cup kicks off

It's Megan Rapinoe's last World Cup, and it could be Marta's, too. From winter weather to new faces to watch, here's what to know about this year's tournament in Australia and New Zealand.

The Orange County Register

Jim Alexander: The USWNT’s legacy is multi-faceted

The U.S. women’s national soccer team goes for its third straight World Cup championship beginning Friday evening Pacific time (Saturday afternoon in Auckland, New Zealand), when it opens the 2023 tournament against Vietnam. No country has ever three-peated at the Women’s World Cup, and none has won as many as…

The Conversation

FIFA Women's World Cup: Gender equity in sports remains an issue despite the major strides being made

The FIFA Women’s World Cup will commence on July 20 in Australia and New Zealand. As the largest women’s sporting event in the world, the Women’s World Cup gives the opportunity for elite women footballers to represent their country and compete at the highest level on the world stage.

Sports Illustrated

Megan Rapinoe Is Proud to Be the USWNT’s ‘Fun Grandma’

As the team has evolved, so too has its 38-year-old star. And not just in hair color.

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