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All the U.S. women’s national team had to do to get a little attention is suffer the most embarrassing loss in the program’s 25-year history.
And they know it.
“Its so funny we are getting major coverage all over ESPN now because we lost to mexico..we don’t ever get this much coverage,” midfielder Carli Lloyd tweeted on Monday morning from Cancun, where the team is preparing for perhaps the unlikeliest match it has ever played.
American TV networks couldn’t have cared less about the CONCACAF Women’s World Cup qualifying tournament that started late last month on the Yucatan peninsula. And why should they? With the growth of MLS and the men’s national side, along with the retirement of household names like Mia Hamm and Brandi Chastain, the U.S. women have ceased to be a transcendent media property.
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