U.S. women’s soccer team beats Brazil 1-0 to win gold medal at Paris Olympics

The U.S. girls’s soccer workforce is golden as soon as extra after beating Brazil in a extremely anticipated remaining match on the Paris Olympics on Saturday.

A aim from Mallory Swanson, enjoying in her a hundredth match for the U.S., within the 57th minute, was the distinction between the 2 rivals.

The U.S. was undefeated heading into the sport, however Brazil had the perfect possibilities early. Brazilian ahead Ludmila was alone in entrance of the aim within the second minute, however her shot went straight into the arms of goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher.

Brazil thought that they had a aim when Ludmila appeared to attain within the sixteenth minute, nevertheless it was shortly dominated out for offside.

In stoppage time, some heroics from Naeher preserved the win with a one-handed save on Adriana’s header.

The loss alerts extra heartbreak for Brazil and its iconic star, Marta. The six-time world participant of the 12 months, who introduced early this 12 months that she’s going to retire after this 12 months’s Video games, has by no means gained a Girls’s World Cup or an Olympics. The 38-year-old first stepped onto the Olympic turf 20 years in the past on the 2004 Video games in Athens.

To get to the ultimate, each groups needed to weave their manner by way of a aggressive area of rivals. Twelve nations in complete certified for the Paris 2024 Olympics.

America and Brazil rose to the highest of the pack after beating opponents Germany and Spain, respectively, throughout semifinal matches earlier this week. 

The People gained 1-0 Tuesday in a fierce battle with Germany. Ahead participant Sophia Smith scored the successful aim within the first 15-minute half of additional time after an help from teammate Mallory Swanson.

“I am so pleased with us for locating a manner in these previous couple of video games to get the win,” Smith mentioned after Tuesday’s match. Smith turns 24 on Aug. 10, the day of the gold medal matchup. 

Brazil had their work minimize out for them going into Tuesday’s semifinals towards Spain, which boasted an undefeated document on the Summer time Video games. Nonetheless, the South American workforce managed to defy the percentages once they beat the 2023 FIFA Girls’s World Cup champs 4-2.

The U.S. girls’s workforce is now the winningest workforce within the Olympics with 5 gold medals. The People have defeated Brazil twice in an Olympic remaining — in 2004 and 2008. The final time the U.S. girls’s workforce introduced house gold was on the 2012 Video games in London. 

Germany gained the 2016 girls’s finals in Rio and Canada took house gold in 2021 in Tokyo.

Tom Cruise, former U.S. star Megan Rapinoe and former NBA star Sue Chook have been amongst these within the crowd at Parc des Princes.

It was the third victory for the USA over Brazil in an Olympic remaining. The People additionally beat the Brazilians in 2004 in Athens and 4 years later in Beijing.

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