The United States women won their first World Cup soccer championship since 1999 with a 5-2 win over Japan in the finals in Canada. Carli Lloyd was the brightest star as she had the first hat trick in a Women’s World Cup final ever, and she only needed 16 minutes to do it. This was the 3rd World Cup title for the Americans.
The other 2 goals for the United States were from Lauren Holiday and Tobin Heath. Holiday slipped in a goal between Lloyd’s 2nd and 3rd goal, while Heath put the final nail in the coffin, finishing the scoring in the 54th minute.
Japan did stage a bit of a comeback, after falling behind 4-0 early. Yuki Ogimi scored a goal at the 27th minute, while their other goal was actually an own goal, accidentally knocked in by Julie Johnston of the United States. This win avenged the World Cup final loss to Japan in 2011.
Lloyd not surprisingly won the Golden Ball award as the best player of the tournament, while Hope Solo of the United States goalie won her 2nd straight Golden Glove award, given to the best goalkeeper of the World Cup.
The television ratings for the Women’s World Cup final was the highest rated soccer game in the United States of all time. The telecast had an 18.3 rating at its highest point. By contrast, the highest rating for a men’s soccer game in the U.S. was during last year’s World Cup at 9.1. Yes, the women had a tv rating just over double of the best rating the men ever had.
It just goes to show you that most of the United States still doesn’t care about men’s soccer at all, mainly because they aren’t very good. While the interest in women’s soccer is much higher, because they actually have a good chance to win a World Cup, which they have now done 3 times. Plus it doesn’t hurt when some of the girls on the team are nice looking, like Alex Morgan.
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