United States women's national soccer team

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United States

Nickname WNT
Association United States Soccer Federation
Coach Greg Ryan, 2005—
Most caps Kristine Lilly (307)
Top scorer Mia Hamm (158)

First International
Italy 1–0 USA
(Jesolo, Italy; 18 August 1985)
Largest win
USA 12–0 Mexico
(Port-au-Prince, Haiti; 18 April 1991)
USA 12–0 Martinique
(Port-au-Prince, Haiti; 20 April 1991)
Worst defeat
Norway 4–1 USA
(Lagos, Portugal; 19 March 1998)
Canada 3–0 USA
(Lagos, Portugal; 11 March 2001)
USA 0–3 Germany
(Portland, Oregon, USA; 5 October 2003)
World Cup
Appearances First in FIFA Women's World Cup 1991>1991)
Best result Winners, 1991, 1999
Olympic Games
Appearances First in Football at the 1996 Summer Olympics>1996)
Best result Winners, 1996, 2004
CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup
Appearances 2 (First in 2000)
Best result Winners, 2000, 2002

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The United States Women's National Soccer Team (often called "The WNT") is operated by the United States Soccer Federation. It is the world's first women's soccer (football) team made up of full-time professionals and is also one of the most successful teams (women's or men's) in history. The WNT has won two Women's World Cups (1991 and 1999); two Olympic Women's Tournaments (1996 and 2004) and four Algarve Cups (2000, 2003, 2004, 2005). The United States U-19 women's national soccer team side also won the inaugural FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship in 2002.

The WNT played its first match on August 19, 1985, coached by Mike Ryan (no relationship to current coach Greg Ryan). In March 2004, two of its stars, Mia Hamm (who retired later that year after a post-Olympic team tour of the USA) and Michelle Akers (who had already retired), were the only two women named to the FIFA 100, a list of the 125 greatest living footballers chosen by Pelé as part of FIFA's centenary observances.

Contents

1 Competition record

1.1 World Cup record
1.2 Olympic record
1.3
1.4
1.5

2 Team development
3 Current Roster
4 Famous players
5 WNT coaching history
6 See also
7 External links

Competition record

World Cup record

1991 - Champions
1995 - Third place
1999 - Champions
2003 - Third place

Olympic record

1996 - Gold
2000 - Silver
2004 - Gold

''Women's Olympic teams are effectively the same national teams that compete for the World Cup, featuring players of any age. Men's is restricted to Under-23.

2000
2003
2004
2005

Team development

The US WNT draws its players from several sources, including the United States U-20 women's national soccer team, the Women's Premier Soccer League (WPSL) and the semi-professional W-League. As of 2006, there is no full-time, paid (professional) women's soccer league in the United States.

Current Roster

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Famous players

The WNT boasts all five players in the history of the game to have earned 200 caps (international appearances). In descending order of number of caps, they are:

Kristine Lilly (reached 300 in China, during the WNT's January 18, 2006 game at the Four Nations Tournament [link])
Mia Hamm (276)
Julie Foudy
Joy Fawcett
Tiffeny Milbrett

Famous Former Players

WNT coaching history

1985: Mike Ryan W–L–T 0–3–1, Pct. .125
1986–1994: Anson Dorrance W–L–T 66–22–5, Pct. .737
1994–1999: Tony DiCicco W–L–T 103–8–8, Pct. .899
2000: Lauren Gregg (for AU tournament only) W–L–T 2–0–1, Pct. .833
2000–2004: April Heinrichs W–L–T 87–17–20, Pct. .782
2005–: Greg Ryan W–L–T 4–0–0, Pct. 1.000

External links

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