Columnist at usa today, quest and patrick snell, cnns sports anchor and reporter. What an incatherine historic moment. Amanda this must have been an electrifying moment. Absolutely. The tournament tagline here in france has been dare to shine. Thats exactly what this u. S. Team did over the 90 minutes inside the stadium here in lyon, playing at this World Cup Final is the pinnacle for any international footballer. You saw what itment to these players as they ran onto the pitch just after the anthems had been played. We saw it throughout the 90 minutes. They had to fight this u. S. Side. So many people had been hyping them um, talking about them as absolutely the overwhelming favorites against a dutch team who were at the World Cup Finals for the first time, playing in this tournament for just the second time in their history. But it was tight. Once we got past that first 12 minutes, that vital 12 minute that is at every point in this tournament so far, they had already scored. They had
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give me an idea how everyone there, the world has marvel over team usa, even before today s amazing victory. reporter: yeah, absolutely. the u.s. are the team without doubt the rest of the world use as the benchmark, where they need to get to. i was talking to the england boss earlier, of course, a top-level player himself. i said do you still use the u.s. women as a benchmark or taking your experience of the men s game when you won the league, and he said no, absolutely not, it is the u.s. they were the people that we are setting all our targets on. i ve lookeds on jill elis what she does with the u.s. team. i have investigated their trainings programs, what do they do? how do they make themselves fitter than the rest? that s not an individual case. it s very much what the other
teams around europe have been doing in recent times. this is a u.s. team, you ve got to remember that yes, they were the defending champion. they won fouriers, but they haven t had it all their own way since then. they suffered an early examine i from the olympics, and then people started asking question, was jill ellis really the coached that should be leading the team into the world cup. she tried different formations, some people didn t like that, but she accepted i know what all my players can do. if i need to change things, i know how i did beat different teams. it has absolutely paid off. we know when megan was injured,