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.
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