Failure or progress?
By Philip Hersh
The game is a touchstone for women soccer players, just as the moon walk — the giant step for mankind, not Michael Jackson’s dance move — was for the world 40 years ago, as Ray Meyer taking DePaul to the Final Four was to Chicagoans 30 years ago, as Greg LeMond’s back-from-near-death victory on the last stage of the Tour de France was for U.S. cycling fans 20 years ago.
The game took place 10 years ago last Friday. It redefined the lives of many young athletes and became one of those moments in which the memory of where they saw it became indelible.
Lindsay Tarpley was 15 years old when she watched the final of the 1999 Women’s World Cup with her parents and two brothers — neither a soccer player — in the family room of their home in Kalamazoo, Mich. Read more
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