World Cup

United States’ Megan Rapinoe, right, celebrates after scoring the opening goal from the penalty spot during the Women’s World Cup final soccer match between US and The Netherlands at the Stade de Lyon in Decines, outside Lyon, France, Sunday, July 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco) XAF174 XAF174

July 26, 2019 at 11:57 am

Will popularity of Megan Rapinoe, U.S. women’s World Cup team boost NWSL, women’s sports?

Going forward, the big question is whether the NWSL, and professional women's sports in general, can capitalize on the momentum created by the U.S. women's...

Megan Rapinoe, center, is joined by her teammates on the U.S. women’s national soccer team during a celebratory rally at City Hall following a ticker-tape parade in New York on Wednesday, July 10, 2019. The team, which defeated the Netherlands, 2-0, on Sunday in the World Cup final, traversed the Canyon of Heroes, a stretch of Broadway from Battery Park to City Hall. (Calla Kessler/The New York Times) XNYT98 XNYT98

July 10, 2019 at 9:57 am

Megan Rapinoe steals the show at the World Cup rally in NYC VIEW

“This is my charge to everyone: We have to be better, we have to love more and hate less. Listen more and talk less. It...

Nation & World

July 9, 2019 at 10:14 pm

Swigging Champagne, World Cup champion US women parade through NYC’s Canyon of Heroes VIEW

Co-captain Megan Rapinoe and her teammates shared a float with Mayor Bill de Blasio and U.S. Soccer Federation president Carlos Cordeiro. Rapinoe struck her now-famous...

Nation & World

United States women’s soccer team member Megan Rapinoe holds the Women’s World Cup trophy as she poses for the media after arriving with the rest of the team at Newark Liberty International Airport, Monday, July 8, 2019, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) NJKW107 NJKW107

July 9, 2019 at 1:38 pm

Megan Rapinoe: ‘I held up my end of the bargain’ after back-and-forth with Trump

Two days after winning the United States’ second consecutive World Cup title and record fourth overall, co-captain Megan Rapinoe was ready to declare this year’s...

Portraits of the USA women’s soccer team members are visible in the windows of a building on Fifth Avenue, in New York, Thursday, June 13, 2019. Women’s soccer engages the U.S. every four years, then disappears for most fans like Brigadoon. In the wake of the Americans’ record-setting fourth World Cup title Sunday, July 7, 2019, the hard part remains ahead: the weekly work of boosting the National Women’s Soccer League. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) NYRD201 NYRD201

July 8, 2019 at 9:40 am

After U.S. World Cup win, the National Women’s Soccer League seeks more fans, sponsors

Women's soccer engages the U.S. every four years, then disappears for most fans. In the wake of the Americans' record-setting fourth World Cup title Sunday,...

Megan Rapinoe celebrates after being awarded the Golden Ball trophy after the Women’s World Cup final between the U.S. and the Netherlands at Stade de Lyon in Lyon, France, on July 7, 2019. The United States women’s soccer team claimed its fourth Women’s World Cup title on Sunday, beating the Netherlands, 2-0, to repeat as world champions. (Pete Kiehart/The New York Times) XNYT76 XNYT76

July 8, 2019 at 4:41 am

Megan Rapinoe, reveling in the spotlight, celebrates another World Cup win

Megan Rapinoe charmed fans with her waggish personality and utter lack of a rhetorical filter; drew the ire of the President on social media; antagonized...

Fans react to Rose Lavelle’s goal in the 69th minute to put the U.S. Women’s National Team 2-0 up over the Netherlands for the Women’s World Cup Final at Rhein Haus, a bar in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Sunday July 7, 2019. 210774

July 7, 2019 at 1:36 pm

Hundreds of Seattle fans celebrate U.S. win at Women’s World Cup watch party

By the 8 a.m. kickoff, Rhein Haus in Capitol Hill was brought to standing-room only with an estimated 850-person crowd, the largest the restaurant has...

Sports

July 7, 2019 at 6:30 am

Megan Rapinoe's goal pushes U.S. women over the Netherlands for fourth World Cup title VIEW

The United States won its record fourth Women's World Cup title and second in a row, beating the Netherlands 2-0 Sunday when Megan Rapinoe converted...

Sports

July 7, 2019 at 6:00 am

Rewind: U.S. women win second consecutive World Cup title on back of goals from Megan Rapinoe, Rose Lavelle

The U.S. and Netherlands entered halftime scoreless, but it wouldn't stay that way for long. Megan Rapinoe struck first on a penalty kick to open...

U.S. forward Christen Press (23) celebrates her goal in the first half of the Women’s World Cup semifinal match between the U.S. and England at Stade de Lyon in Lyon, France, July 2, 2019. When Megan Rapinoe was forced to miss the World Cup semifinal, the United States didn’t miss a beat. (Pete Kiehart/The New York Times) XNYT48 XNYT48

July 6, 2019 at 10:38 am

These U.S. women don't care what anyone thinks of them. Nor should they. | Larry Stone

The USWNT is on the verge of winning another Women's World Cup, and they've gotten to the final with a brash confidence that they shouldn't...

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