Kristine Lilly won 4 NCAA championships, she won 2 Olympic Gold medals, 2 World Cups and is in the Guinness Book of World Record for most caps played for country with 354. Her first World Cup was in 1991 and was hardly covered by any American sports media – even her home paper did not write about it. But some 8 years later in the 1999 World Cup, her and her teammates would go on to break the record, still standing today, for people to watch a women’s soccer match. In a packed Rose Bowl that day, they won the final in dramatic fashion and won over their county in such a way that a Women’s World Cup will never be as anonymous as it was when Kristine began.
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