WC19

I’d run through a brick wall if I needed to. And celebrating with this team — this family! — after we secured that World Cup trophy is something I’ll remember f

Hi!! Sue Bird here. This is my WC Semis preview.

I am the girl Crystal Dunn of the USWNT met at the airport. It was Dulles Airport in Virginia. I am 19 now, and meeting her changed my life.

I know this might be my last ride. But I don’t take a day of it for granted.

When I put on our U.S. kit … I do it for every single American girl out there who wants to see someone who looks like them — someone whose story reminds them of

Every time I hear the anthem play before our matches, no matter if it’s a friendly, or a World Cup final, I feel the same thing: gratefulness.

"Eu não ia desistir do meu sonho. Aquela menininha agora é jogadora de futebol. Valeu a pena todo o sacrifício."

At one point I started to dream about playing football for real. It’s what I did best. It’s what I liked. It’s what I wanted.

Pas le football des hommes contre le football des femmes. Il n’y a pas de meilleur ou de pire. On veut juste être reconnues et respectées.

我从来都不喜欢“再见”这个词

We know what people expect of us. This is our big chance to show the world what we can do.

Here I am, once again, facing a new struggle. Am I too old? Am I fit enough? Am I done?

"We're multi-racial. We're women. We're Jamaican." Jamaica midfielder Chinyelu Asher tells you what it means to be representing her country.

"My life has often felt like a scattered puzzle, but even when everything seems perfect, and I can see the whole picture, there is still that piece missing.”

I’ll never forget that soccer ball. Not because of what it looked like, or how it felt. But for what it represents. For the story it tells.

All my life, to the best of my ability, I’ve just wanted to watch soccer, practice soccer, play soccer — be around soccer.

The World Cup can be a platform for female empowerment, and we want to capitalize on that, both on and off the field.

In Martinique, it means something, the French shirt. In the Caribbean, we respect that shirt. We know it needs to be earned.

I just had to follow what I was feeling in my heart. Your dreams are your dreams. Sometimes they don’t make sense to other people.

The Jamaica's women's national team qualified for the World Cup for the first time ever. The Players' Tribune takes you inside the week when they made history.

I called a bunch of coaches in men’s soccer. They told me that there was no way I was ever going to play on a men’s team. They were wrong.

If men’s football can thrill and inspire people, women’s football can, too.