This is no ordinary “Shut up and play.” What they really seem to be saying is: Just shut up.
In that way, the experience of the U.S. women’s team reflects the confounding experience of so many women trying to make a case for their callings and careers around the world.
That was the setting chosen by FIFA, world soccer’s governing body, for the first Women’s World Cup.
Instead, it got the consolation prize of women’s soccer, a sport nothing like the glory of soccer played by men.
The male organizers of the tournament seriously considered having the women play with a smaller ball — a size used by children.
Persons:
—, Let’s, April Heinrichs, ”
Organizations:
U.S, FIFA
Locations:
Guangdong, China