United States women's national soccer team

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United States

Nickname

Association

United States Soccer Federation

Coach

Greg Ryan, 2005—

Most caps

Kristine Lilly (319)

Top scorer

Mia Hamm (158)

FIFA rank





Home colors





Away colors

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

4 (First in 1991)

Best result

Winners, 1991, 1999

Olympic Games

Appearances

3 (First in 1996)

Best result

Winners, 1996, 2004

CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup

Appearances

3 (First in 2000)

Best result

Winners, 2000, 2002, 2006

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Olympic medal record
Women's Football
Gold	1996 Atlanta	Team
Gold	2004 Athens	Team
Silver	2000 Sydney	Team

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.

Among its many other honors, the team was selected the US Olympic Committee's Team of the Year in 1997 and 1999. Sports Illustrated magazine chose the entire team as its 1999 Athlete of the Year.

1 Competition record
2 Team development
3 Current roster
4 Famous players
5 WNT coaching history
6 See also
7 External links

[edit] Competition record

[edit] World Cup record

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

[edit] 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.

[edit] Algarve Cup

1994 2nd Place
1995 4th Place
1996 Did not participate
1997 3rd Place
1998 3rd Place
1999 2nd Place
2000 Champions
2001 6th Place
2002 5th Place
2003 Champions
2004 Champions
2005 Champions
2006 2nd Place

[edit] Four Nations Tournament

[edit] CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup

2000 - Champions
2002 - Champions
2006 - Champions

[edit] 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.

[edit] Current roster

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB/Age	Caps	Club
1	GK	Briana Scurry	7 September 1971	158
2	DF	Heather Mitts	9 June 1978	61
3	DF	Christie Rampone	24 June 1975	154
4	MF	Cat Whitehill	10 February 1982	96	New Jersey Wildcats
5	FW	Lindsay Tarpley	22 September 1983	57
6	FW	Natasha Kai	22 May 1983	15
7	MF	Marci Miller	4 December 1975	12
8	DF	Tina Frimpong	20 May 1982	17
9	FW	Heather O'Reilly	2 January 1985	50	New Jersey Wildcats
10	MF	Aly Wagner	10 August 1980	107
11	MF	Carli Lloyd	16 July 1982	19
12	MF	Leslie Osborne	27 May 1983	28
13	MF	Kristine Lilly	22 July 1971	317	KIF Örebro DFF
14	DF	Stephanie Lopez	3 April 1986	8
15	DF	Kate Markgraf	23 August 1976	152	KIF Örebro DFF
16	MF	Angela Hucles	5 July 1978	58
17	DF	Lori Chalupny	1 January 1984	28
18	GK	Hope Solo	30 July 1981	35
19	FW	Danesha Adams	6 June 1986	1	UCLA Bruins
20	FW	Abby Wambach	2 June 1980	82
21	MF	Marci Miller	4 December 1975	8
22	DF	Stephanie Lopez	3 April 1986	7	University of Portland
25	FW	Megan Rapinoe	5 July 1985	4	University of Portland

Source: http://www.ussoccer.com/articles/viewArticle.jsp_281516.html

[edit] 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: