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Credit to every single player on this team for getting it done. certainly. what a weekend to do it over the fourth of july. hat trick in 16 minutes and really special moment when abby womback took the field in the 78th minute. you did something extraordinary. i m not sure if many people know. they actually gave her the captain s arm band. describe that moment what it meant to you to do that. well you know christy rampone and abby womback are our captains and haven t been on the pitch as much this world cup. i ve been granted the honor of wearing the arm band. when abby came on i knew that this was probably her last world cup game and i insisted and said look take the arm band. she said no no no. i said look take the arm band. took it off my arm, put it on her arm. i wanted her to have it. she s a legend. she s just inspired so many of us on the team on and off the
They want to win this for abby womback. she s been coming off the bench. lot of people are saying they hope to see her get some minutes. this is her last world cup. it s alluded her, her entire career. she wants this. not only these young girls, these young women she s passing the baton on to them but they want to win it for abby because they know this is her last world cup. what would this mean for women s soccer in the u.s. if they do win? that s a great question. it s posed all the time. unfortunately, soccer is just not the top sport in the united states. and you hope with brandy chastain and mia hamm and the success we ve seen not only on the women s side but male side as well you would see soccer really kind of take some advantage through that and have more people play and watch. but i think it s the patriotism. i think it s the teams that are playing in the olympics and the
For the first time in more than a decade, the u.s. women s soccer team is headed to the world cup finals. abby womback used her head to score the tying goal, and a minute later, another goal to clinch the semifinal against france. the u.s. team faces off against japan sunday. they are also competing against the memory of the famous 1999 world cup final, when the u.s. beat china. we were hoping to talk with brandi chastain about that big win more than ten years ago but unfortunately, in trying to reach her, her phone calls are just going to voice mail. we ll try again. we have been talking online about what s driving the debt deadlock in washington, and you all have a lot to say on this topic. r.d. giles thinks our elected officials don t do anything for this country unless it benefits their re-election. re-election first, country second.