The Girls of Summer
The U.S. Women's Soccer Team and How It Changed the World
Chapter OneAfterwordA League of Their Own
ARE YOU BRANDI CHASTAIN?"
"No, she's the naked one."
But you're somebody, aren't you?"
The woman in the restaurant filed through her mental Rolodex.
"I've seen you somewhere. A Denny's ad?"
"Dunkin' Donuts."
"Right, so you're . . . "Julie Foudy."
"I knew you were somebody."
A year and a half after the Women's World Cup, the flame of recognitionstill kindled with the public. It was now possible to see Foudy's face,like a wanted poster for calorie felons, in the window of donut shops upand down the East Coast. An athletic windfall had dovetailed with thecommercial one. Beginning in April of 2001, a professional soccer leaguefor women would begin play in eight cities, around the country. Withopening day only four months away, Foudy and her teammates had gatheredin Boca Raton, Florida, for the inaugural draft of the Women's UnitedSoccer Association (WUSA).
The American World Cup and. Olympic stars previously had been assig ... read full excerpt from Girls Of Summer, The ebook
