There will be a women’s soccer World Cup dream match-up in store for New York soccer fans with a planned game between the champion USA team and third place England at Yankee Stadium, Page Six can exclusively reveal.
The match-up between the FIFA Women’s World Cup-winning USA soccer team and England’s female squad is being planned for November, according to sources at the United States Soccer Federation.
US Women’s soccer star Carli LloydPhoto: Paul Martinka
The already much-anticipated match will give New York fans a chance to see the stars of USA women’s soccer — including Carli Lloyd, Hope Solo, Megan Rapinoe and Abby Wambach — up close in action. They beat Japan in an incredible 5-2 victory to win the tournament on July 5 in Vancouver, Canada.
It will also as give England’s women’s soccer squad a further shot at redemption. England crashed out of their semifinal against Japan in early July after a heartbreaking own goal from Laura Bassett during second-half stoppage time. But England rallied and went on to beat Germany for third place in the tournament.
A source with knowledge of the planned game told Page Six, “With the huge popularity of soccer in New York, and a chance to see the USA women’s soccer team up close, this could be a huge event. Some soccer fans felt that, if it hadn’t been for that heartbreaking own goal, England would have been in the FIFA Women’s World Cup Final against the United States, so you could say this is a chance to see the final that was never played.”
The FIFA Women’s Soccer World Cup final was seen on TV by an average of 25.4 million viewers on Fox, making it the most-watched soccer match in US history, for not only a women’s match, but men’s as well. The match peaked at 30.9 million viewers at around 8:30 p.m., after the US had scored its fifth goal.
The US women’s soccer champs then drew a crowd of thousands for their historic ticker tape parade in downtown Manhattan on July 10.
