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At this Women’s World Cup, ‘The Girls’ want you to know their names
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Colombia's Linda Caicedo celebrates with fans after they defeated Jamaica to progress to the quarter-finals of the World Cup.
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Sara Merican
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Mary Earps is a goalkeeper. Saki Kumagai is the captain. Linda Caicedo is starting. Sam Kerr is on the bench. Football is a team sport but on the world’s biggest stage, the Women’s World Cup, names are important.
Names are headlines. Names can be woven into stadium chants and battle songs, knitted into the sacred fabric of football mythology and sporting folklore.
