And that third kicker, my normal MO, method of operations, for penalty kicks is to not look at my team kicks, nor do I really look at the opposing player walking up to the penalty spot. I had done some sports visualization with the sport doc on that. And then you also actually hope you don't have to be in a shootout, but when you find yourself in one, like I did in '99, I was supremely confident. We train for it pretty much every day in training leading up to that event. The goalkeeping shootout for a major game like that is a very interesting proposition. On the penalty kick save that paved the way for Team USA's win against China in the 1999 Women's World Cup We wanted to make sure that that playing field was more level and they were very, very strong willed and had an iron fist about it - but eventually we got what we wanted. They said some very unsavory things about us as players, and all we were trying to do was provide equity for not only ourselves, but for all the women that would come behind us and don the jersey and represent the United States of America in soccer. We knew that the Federation would have to cave eventually, but boy, were they mean and nasty in the process.
I was an 8-year-old girl who wanted to be an Olympian, and here I was at the precipice of potentially achieving a lifelong dream, and I was risking it for something that was greater than myself. We risked not only our livelihoods, but also our dreams. So myself and eight of my other teammates basically decided to go on strike against the Federation. We felt in 1995 that we had some leverage at that point in time because the Olympics were just around the corner and we were, in fact, favored to win. Soccer Federation - like per diems, air travel and prize money On fighting for equity in resources with the U.S. That was the last soccer game I've ever played." "I knew there was something really wrong. "My whole life changed from that moment," Scurry says.
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But her soccer career ended abruptly in 2010, when she was playing in the new Women's Professional Soccer league and a member of the opposing team collided with her, crashing her knee into Scurry's right temple. She won two Olympic gold medals, in 19, and a World Cup in 1999. Scurry would go on to become one of the top goalkeepers in the history of U.S. "They, thankfully, were nurturing of that little inspiration and helped me hone my skills in all different sports through high school."
"I was so inspired, I rose up from the couch and declared to my parents that I wanted to be an Olympian," Scurry says. Olympic ice hockey team beat Team USSR in Lake Placid, NY.
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Soccer star Briana Scurry still remembers the day she knew she wanted to be an Olympian: It was 1980, and Scurry, then 8 years old, watched on TV as the underdog men's U.S. Briana Scurry blocks a penalty shootout during overtime of the Women's World Cup Final against China at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., July 10, 1999.
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