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title	:	Women of Sports. The Best of the Best in Soccer
author	:	Rutledge, Rachel.
publisher	:	Millbrook Press
isbn10 | asin	:	076131315X
print isbn13	:	9780761313151
ebook isbn13	:	9780585343297
language	:	English
subject	Women Soccer players--Biography--Juvenile literature, Soccer for women--Juvenile literature, Soccer players, Women--Biography, Soccer for women.
publication date	:	1998
lcc	:	GV944.9.A1R88 1998eb
ddc	:	796.334/082/0922
subject	:	Women Soccer players--Biography--Juvenile literature, Soccer for women--Juvenile literature, Soccer players, Women--Biography, Soccer for women.

Page 1 WOMEN OF SPORTS The Best of the Best in Soccer By Rachel Rutledge

Page 2 Produced by CRONOPIO PUBLISHING John Sammis, President and TEAM STEWART, INC. Series Design and Electronic Page Makeup by JAFFE ENTERPRISES Ron Jaffe Researched and Edited by Mark Stewart and Michael Kennedy Special thanks to Joe Provey and SOCCER JR. Magazine All photos courtesy AP/WIDE WORLD PHOTOS, INC. Except the following: ROB TRINGALI/ SPORTS CHROME: Cover (Mia Hamm, Canada vs. USA, 1997) SIDELINE SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY, MICHAEL STAHLSCHMIDT Pages 13, 19, 25, 28, 34, 40, 46, 49, 52, 60 PHIL STEPHENS PHOTOGRAPHY Pages 2, 14, 22, 38, 42, 44, 50, 55, 56, 58, 63 THE NATIONAL SOCCER HALLOF FAME, ONEONTA, NYPage 6, 8 Copyright 1998 by Cronopio Publishing LLC All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America Published by The Millbrook Press, Inc. 2 Old New Milford Road Brookfield, Connecticut 06804 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rutledge, Rachel. The best of the best in soccer/ by Rachel Rutledge. p. cm. (Women of Sports) Includes index. Summary; Discusses the past and future of women's soccer and presents biographies of eight of the sport's most famous players: Michelle Akers, Joy Fawcett, Julie Foudy, Mia Hamm, Kristine Lilly, Shannon MacMillan, Carla Overbeck, and Brianna Scurry. ISBN 0-7613-1315-X (lib. bdg.).ISBN 0-7613-0782-6 (pbk.) 1. Women Soccer playersBiographyJuvenile literature. 2. Soccer for womenJuvenile literature. [1. Soccer players. 2. WomenBiography. 3. Soccer for women.] I. Title. II. Series: Best of the best in soccer. GV944.9.A1R88 1998 796.334'082'0922 [B]DC21 98-25635 CIP AC pbk: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 lib: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Page 3 Contents Chapter Page In the Beginning 4 Michelle Akers 14 Joy Fawcett 20 Julie Foudy 26 Mia Hamm 32 Kristine Lilly 38 Shannon Macmillan 44 Carla Overbeck 50 Briana Scurry 56 What's Next 62 Index 64

Page 4 In the Beginning Although soccer is one of the world's oldest sports, women's soccer is one of the newest. For a good part of the last century, females have been dissuaded, discouraged and sometimes even banned from playing the game, which existed on the fringes of the mainstream sports scene. Soccer is fast, rough and strenuousand almost always played in shortsso until relatively recent times, it was considered totally inappropriate by those who purported to understand the "limits" of the female mind and body. The 1970s saw the first real opportunities for girls to play organized soccer, both in this country and overseas. Prior to that, they had to play in leagues for boys. During the 1980s, there was an explosion of both girls' and mixed-sex youth leagues, and by the early 1990s women's soccer was well-established in high schools and colleges in North America, Latin America, the Pacific Rim and Europe. The sad part of this story is that it took so long. The happy partfor the United States and the

Page 5 women's game, in generalis that everyone started at the same time and on equal footing. In other words, there was instant parity. That had not been the case in men's soccer, where British teams ruled the field for 75 years before everyone else caught up. For centuries, the sport had thrived in England under the name of "football," although it bore scant resemblance to today's game. Until the mid-1800s, in fact, a typical football match amounted to no more than a thinly veiled version of mob violence. It featured pushing, shoving, kicking, biting and punching, and the exhausted participants generally quit after a single goal had been scored or someone had been mortally wounded. These games were not played in open fields, but right through the middle of cities and villages. "Teams" of 50 or more men barreled down the muddy streets trying to overwhelm each other.

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