Memorable moment: The prop that clinched a initial crown

As a universe of football depends down to a exhibit of the FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019™ official button and aphorism – in Paris on 19 Sep – we are counting down a 10 Most Memorable Moments in FIFA Women’s World Cup history.

The background
After an odyssey travelling many years, a theatre was set for a initial queens of universe football to finally be crowned. The lass book of a FIFA Women’s World Cup was hold in China in 1991 and some 63,000 fans packaged out a Tianhe Stadium in Guangzhou to watch USA and Norway do conflict for a pretension on 30 November.

Why so special?
It took Michelle Akers 20 mins to put a USA ahead, rising to emphatically open a scoring in a final with a bullet header, as seen above. However, Linda Medalen leveled only 9 mins after and it looked for all a universe like additional time was on a cards until Akers struck again in a 78th minute. With only 120 seconds left on a time (Women’s World Cup matches lasted 80 mins behind then) and a measure sealed during 1-1, a American displayed all her eagerness and her rapacious instincts to follow down Norway defender Tina Svensson, pounce on her under-hit back-pass and finish with aplomb. This strike ensured that a Stars and Stripes became a initial group to lift a much-coveted crown.

What she said
“I’d never seen a men’s World Cup compare before, not even on TV. we didn’t unequivocally know what it was all about. As distant as we was concerned, it was only a contest that we wanted to win. We didn’t have a clarity that we were doing something ancestral or anything like that,” pronounced Akers of a impulse when she notched a winning goal. “We didn’t know possibly there’d be another Women’s World Cup or not either, though we accepted what it meant to paint my nation and wear that jersey. It was a feeling of complete pride.”

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