It’s ushering in an exciting new era in the sport.
to the United States in the London semifinals—the sport’s lowest-key superpower finally has some championship hardware.
If today’s result came as a shock, maybe you haven’t been paying attention. Canada and Sweden have spent the last two weeks delivering standout performance after standout performance, playing the best soccer of their careers and ruthlessly punishing everyone in their path who failed to do the same. Nobody else did both, including marquee teams, like the Netherlands and the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team , who were expected to win big.
against the Netherlands, but did you predict a 10-3 final score with a hat trick each from Barbra Banda and Vivianne Miedema? How about that 4-4 banger between China and Zambia, featuring aBanda hat trick? Maybe you had a feeling that Vivianne Miedema would win the Golden Boot, but did you think she’d do it by scoring 10 goals in her first Olympics—? Probably not, which is exactly why this tournament was so much fun.
Wild upsets and outrageous goal tallies are always fun, but in this tournament, they were also hugely significant. In a sport that’s been so thoroughly dominated by Team USA for so long, they were a clear sign that, at long last, the rest of the world is starting to catch up. Sure, this isn’t the first time an underdog has won Olympic gold, but as someone who’s followed women’s soccer for as long as it’s been on TV, I’m telling you—it feels different this time.
So many moments from the Tokyo Games will stick with me for a long time, but I keep coming back to the turning point in the U.S.-Canada semifinal:
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