How the United States got a head start on everybody else in women's football

Bill Clinton USWNT

It’s easy to lead the pack for a very long time when you have a massive head start. Women’s football in the United States is a study in just what a head start can mean, both competitively and in terms of popularity.

America’s history with the sport may be relatively short when compared with the rest of the football-loving world, but part of that short history is a fairly gender-neutral adoption of it. In other words, it wasn’t just the boys who took to the game Americans called “soccer”.

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