A ticker-tape parade will be held in Manhattan to honor the recent USA Women’s Soccer Team for the recent World Cup win. When the parade got underway at 11 a.m., the crowd was five deep or more along the route.
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The ticker tape parade tradition dates back to 1886 but the financial companies that occupy the buildings along the Canyon of Heroes no longer use ticker tape.
The women’s soccer team crushed Japan with a score of 5 to 2 in Vancouver, Canada on Sunday, July 5, marking the nation’s third Women’s World Cup title.
She could hear the crowds chanting “U-S-A”, but those fans were still about 10 blocks away.
This week, Jenkins wrote an open letter congratulating the women’s soccer team, saying she had watched their games on TV – and adding that one of her granddaughters has earned a college scholarship for soccer.
“They’ll never forget it”, Heiss, who is now a skating coach and grandmother, told WPIX in a phone call during the parade. “I hope more people are aware of the talent that the United States has and that there are games week in and week out to be a part of and to support women’s soccer”. The World Cup’s most valuable player, Carli Lloyd, rode another with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who later celebrated the team in front of a reported 4,000 fans in a ceremony at City Hall as Queen’s “We Are The Champions” blared.
“Little girls need this, I think women need this, I think even more than just women’s soccer needs this, and I think it just means so much to how people view women playing sports”, said Jersey City resident Kristen Mercado.
The US men, by contrast, got $8 million for getting knocked out in their first game after advancing out of the group stage in Brazil in 2014.
I’m in the Canyon of Heroes – that is where confetti is flying and the Women’s World Cup soccer team has been riding through on floats with those medals around their necks. The Manhattan borough president, Gale A. Brewer, led a push for the parade by sending a letter to Mayor de Blasio on Monday and starting an online petition.
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Since 1996, New Yorkers have gotten plenty used to ticker tape parades, with four for the World Series champion Yankees and two for the Giants after their Super Bowl triumphs. Attendances quickly began to dwindle and the league folded after three seasons, citing losses of 0 million.
