Mallory Swanson celebrates scoring in opposition to Brazil within the girls’s Gold Medal match between Brazil and United States of America Saturday on the Paris Olympics.
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PARIS — The U.S. girls’s soccer staff is golden once more.
The U.S. defeated Brazil within the gold medal match of the ladies’s soccer match on the Paris Olympics. Saturday’s 1-0 victory provides the People their fifth Olympic gold medal.
It’s a reversal of fortunes for the U.S. staff, which has not received an Olympic gold medal since 2012 in London. The U.S. was knocked out within the quarterfinals on the 2016 Video games in Rio, and needed to accept bronze three years in the past in Tokyo.
The U.S. received each recreation at these Olympics and by no means trailed. Although that they had some shut contests. The People wanted time beyond regulation in dramatic back-to-back 1-0 video games to defeat Japan within the quarterfinals and Germany within the semis.
This title comes underneath the management of a brand new coach, Emma Hayes, and a revamped roster. The staff has been reworked by a trio of younger gamers: Trinity Rodman, Sophia Smith and Mallory Swanson.
The sport was scoreless till the 57th minute, when Swanson, taking part in in her a hundredth match for the Untied States, scored, placing the U.S. on high.
Swanson is the eldest of the powerhouse trio of People, at 26 years outdated. She was a substitute on the 2019 staff that received the Girls’s World Cup in France, however she didn’t make the Olympic staff in 2021. Then, in 2023 she tore her left patella tendon, months earlier than the Girls’s World Cup and confronted an extended restoration.
Brazilian celebrity Marta (proper), taking part in in her sixth Olympics, controls the ball in opposition to Casey Krueger of the U.S. through the girls’s Gold Medal match. The U.S. defeated Brazil 1-0.
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The sport was additionally anticipated to be the ultimate flip for Brazilian celebrity Marta along with her nation’s worldwide staff. Taking part in in her sixth Olympics, she stated it was time handy the staff over to the subsequent era.
Marta was not within the beginning lineup, however got here into the sport within the 61st minute.
Brazil takes the silver medal and Germany obtained the bronze after defeating Spain within the third-place match.