Kevin Baxter: Youth movement brings a boost to USWNT's World Cup three-peat aspirations
by Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times
Jul 12, 2023
4 minutes
Sophia Smith has never used a CD player and is a little hazy about whether websites existed before Google. Alyssa Thompson doesn't understand the music her teammates like. And Naomi Girma remembers feeling sorry for Alex Morgan when she explained she had to use a map — not Mapquest, an actual paper map — to find her way to soccer games as a girl.
"That was such a hard time," Girma gushes, as if Morgan, the most experienced player on the U.S. women's World Cup team, rode to games in a covered wagon.
Although the U.S. team, with an average age of 28, will again be among the oldest when the tournament kicks off in
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