One of the more meaningful moments from that came just before we went to the stadium for the final when Dr. I was talking to all the Air Force people and the pilots asking about the plane. What a trip! You could use your cell phone in the air, you had wide-screen movies, everyone slept the whole way.
Biden was on there, Chelsea Clinton and others from the State Department. We left out of DC and it was a bunch of people in different areas on that flight: Dr. You’ll be on Air Force Two tomorrow.’ I got cleared very quickly because I’m actually FBI fingerprinted at the Naval Academy, so they didn’t need to do a lot of background stuff on me. Soccer Technical Committee at the time, and he said, ‘Hey, do you want to come to the final?’ And I said, ‘Yeah.’ And he said, ‘Alright, I’ll send you some details. It was former US Soccer President Sunil Gulati, and I was on the U.S. I was at work at the Naval Academy sitting in my office and my cell phone rang and it said ‘unavailable’, so I knew it was someone who didn’t want me to know their number. You had a special story about how you watched the 2011 Women’s World Cup final. Everyone can say whatever they want about them, so that’s a whole different dynamic I didn’t have to deal with, so there are benefits but also hardships for how far the game has come. They make a lot more money now and have more notoriety, but they are also critiqued on everything they do on their social media platforms. I’m proud to be a part of that legacy and to be associated with that team. Everyone has to stay injury-free and physically healthy. The teams they’re competing with are so good and so close, and it wasn’t a home event and they’re in European stadiums and finding ways to win against really good teams consistently – that’s a hard thing to do. This most recent one was special because it would be hard to find another team that walks the walk. I’ve always felt a part of it, even when I retired. Our alumni are extremely close, well informed and keep in touch. That’s the neat thing about the US women’s national team: once you’re a part, you’re always a part. How do you experience Women’s World Cups nowadays? What was it like watching the 2019 final? All those things played a huge part in our success. You need a perfect storm to win a world championship and for everything to line up. We stayed in a five-star hotel, too, so you could see they put a lot of money, time and effort into it and it was going to be a great event put on by the Chinese. It’s difficult to stay healthy while travelling. We brought our cooks for the world championship, so we would have more comfortable food and eating habits. We had played together for three or four years and knew each other well, but we had never met each other’s families or anything and they had never watched us play live. It was different because our families were able to go to this tournament. Take us behind the scenes to the journey over to China. We didn’t know what to expect or what it was going to be like but we did feel confident in our abilities.
We were a bunch of kids coming together from high school and college all over the country. We just didn’t have the same feel for a major tournament because we never did it. There was a big tournament there the year before and we did pretty well, not great, and all the European teams had European championships and they played more frequently than we did. We went to China probably three or four times before the world championship, so we were accustomed to the travel and the culture and spending time over there. : Carin, can you take us back to the build-up to the first-ever Women’s World Cup? How were you personally feeling in the days leading up to it? Could you anticipate how well you would end up playing?Ĭarin Gabarra: I don’t think anyone of us understood that. On the anniversary of the China PR 1991 final, caught up with Gabarra, who has been the head coach of the Navy women’s soccer program since 1993, to relive that historic tournament and to hear about the unique ways in which it has shaped her life.
She has been on Air Force Two with Jill Biden and flown all over the world to witness the legacy she helped create: the US women’s national team. Known for her creativity on the ball, Gabarra was dazzling crowds with her skill well before Rose Lavelle was even born. The first-ever winner of the adidas Golden Ball in FIFA Women’s World Cup™ history, Gabarra (formerly Jennings) represents the beginning of a legacy. The term ‘pioneer’ perhaps gets thrown around liberally when talking about women’s football, but there is no doubt that Carin Gabarra can be safely placed in that category. "I’m proud to be a part of the USWNT legacy and to be associated with that team" The former USA star speaks to on the anniversary of inaugural final Carin Gabarra won the first-ever Women’s World Cup adidas Golden Ball award
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