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The long-dominant USA faces a tough challenge from other rising teams amid injuries, inexperience and an evolving sport.

SAN DIEGO — One thing's for sure about this year's Women's World Cup:

The U.S. women’s national soccer team goes for its third straight World Cup championship beginning Friday evening Pacific time (Saturday afternoon in Auckland, New Zealand), when it opens the 2023 tournament against Vietnam. No country has ever three-peated at the Women’s World Cup, and none has won as many as…

The FIFA Women’s World Cup will commence on July 20 in Australia and New Zealand. As the largest women’s sporting event in the world, the Women’s World Cup gives the opportunity for elite women footballers to represent their country and compete at the highest level on the world stage.

As the team has evolved, so too has its 38-year-old star. And not just in hair color.

Motherhood and more have given the U.S. co-captain a refreshed sense of purpose and peace of mind, supercharging her play ahead of her fourth World Cup.

Group E preview: The defending champions are trying to become the first team in history to win three World Cups in a row, but has Europe caught up?

SAN JOSE, Calif. — As a child growing up just across the East River from Manhattan, Crystal Dunn played soccer. She didn't have a lot of teammates — or opponents — who looked like her, however. Neither did Lynn Williams, who grew up in Central California, or Naomi Girma, who…

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