The Summer That Changed Women's Sports: Jere Longman on the 1999 USWNT
Unexpected Curves di Marielle Hall
Note sull'episodio
Before it becomes a Netflix film, The Girls of Summer is worth revisiting.
This week, longtime New York Times reporter Jere Longman joins the show to discuss his book The Girls of Summer: The U.S. Women's Soccer Team and How It Changed the World (the story that inspired Netflix's upcoming adaptation), and why the 1999 U.S. Women's National Team still matters more than 25 years later.
The conversation explores how a tournament with little marketing became the largest women's sporting event in history, why the success of the '99 team was about far more than soccer, and ...