Table of Contents
Prologue: "Where Are All These People Going?" vii
Part I
Chapter 1 "We're Not Very USA-ish" 3
Chapter 2 "I Just Want to Play Soccer" 13
Chapter 3 "Screw You, We'll Show You Differently" 24
Chapter 4 "From Darkness into the Light" 32
Chapter 5 "Babe City, Ladies and Gentlemen" 46
Chapter 6 "Oh S***, These Women Are for Real" 55
Chapter 7 "Is That the Starting Team? Am I Not on It?" 68
Chapter 8 "We Kind of Bled to Death" 78
Chapter 9 "It Was Their Team" 94
Chapter 10 "Why Do We Have to Deal with This Discrimination?" 111
Part II
Chapter 11 "If There Isn't a Goalkeeper Controversy, Why Make One?" 121
Chapter 12 "Whoa, Can We Do This Without Her?" 133
Chapter 13 "You Wouldn't Be on the Field If It Was Up to Me" 145
Chapter 14 "The Americans? They Just Go for It" 158
Chapter 15 "Okay, This Is Our Payback" 170
Part III
Chapter 16 "Let's Give This League a Shot, Let's Go for It" 189
Chapter 17 "I Cannot Comment Further at This Time" 209
Chapter 18 "I've Dreamed of Scoring a Shot Like That" 221
Chapter 19 "It Is Our Job to Keep on Fighting" 241
Chapter 20 "We Played a Bunch of Cowards" 263
Chapter 21 "The Power of Collective Bargaining" 280
Chapter 22 "We Had to Turn the Lens on Ourselves" 297
Chapter 23 "For Inspiration and For Power" 304
Chapter 24 "A Total S***show Circus" 313
Acknowledgments 331
Sources 333
Index 347