This year’s figures have not been released, but four years ago the Women’s World Cup brought in nearly $73 million.
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“I’m so proud to call this my team”. Of course, that doesn’t necessarily make Lloyd’s the best-ever performance in a World Cup final, because, as anyone in this game knows, there’s a lot more to soccer than scoring goals. Indeed, we’re told that star goalie Hope Solo took a picture of one fan’s sign calling for equal pay for women athletes. The Americans hadn’t won soccer’s biggest prize since 1999, but Lloyd believes this team has done something comparably groundbreaking. The thousands that packed into LA Live were only a fraction of the ravenous support that has engulfed the nation as the USA Women won their third Federation Internationale de Football Association Women’s World Cup title and their first since 1999.
The rally, which was free and open to the public, kicked off at 11 a.m., and the entire team went up on stage, giving speeches and taking turns raising their trophy in the air.
Team United States of America beat Japan 5 to 2.
Recently, it was revealed the women’s team will split $2 million for their victory.
If any victory in American sports history deserved to be honored in the most famous city the country has to offer, it’s certainly the one accrued by the USWNT on Sunday afternoon. It is also the quickest hat-trick in a World Cup final (again, both men and women) at 13 minutes between her first and third goals. NWSL teams have already seen an upsurge in ticket sales, but Rapinoe and Lloyd are cautiously confident that the boost is sustainable.
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Normally that task falls to embattled FIFA president Sepp Blatter but he opted not to come following corruption investigations by United States and Swiss authorities which include scrutiny of how FIFA awarded World Cup hosting rights to Russian Federation and Qatar for the 2018 and 2022 men’s tournaments. “I think people will watch”.
