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LFG time for the real Soccer Barbies

LFG time for the real Soccer Barbies

It's hot women summer, because of the World Cup. This is reserved for the real ones.

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Joanne C. Gerstner
Jul 21, 2023
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I’m enough of a dinosaur to clearly remember the Big Bang. No, not the cosmic or BNL ones, but the one in the summer of 1999 that turned a group of female soccer players into American icons and kicked off our global soccer renaissance.

Why yes, I do have an Alex Morgan soccer and an Olympic softball Barbie’s. Sadly. no sportswriter Barbie. Yet. I want th…

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