USA and China PR Meet In the Women’s World Cup For The First Time Since 1999
Soccer News: The U.S. Women’s National Team will contest a quarterfinal match for the seventh time in its history of Women’s World Cup play when it takes on China PR today, June 26, at Lansdowne Stadium in Ottawa, Canada, at the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
The USA and China PR have met three times in Women’s World Cup play (twice in 1995 and once in 1999), but the two countries have been playing each other since the USA’s seventh ever match in 1986, which was the second year of the WNT program. Of course, the 1999 Women’s World Cup Final is one of the most memorable matches between the two teams, which also met in the 1996 Olympic gold medal match in Athens, Georgia.
The match will be broadcast live on FOX and NBC Universo at 7:30 p.m. ET (6:30 p.m. CT). Fans can follow all the action on Twitter and follow the team along its journey on Instagram and Snapchat. The USA and China will play the second of four quarterfinal matches, with the USA earning its way into the round of eight with a 2-0 victory against Colombia on June 22 in Edmonton.
The U.S. WNT played in front of three sold-out crowds during its Women’s World Cup Send-Off Series and the vast majority of the more than 31,000 on June 8 and more than 32,000 on June 12 were also solidly decked out in red, white and blue. The match against Nigeria at BC Place in Vancouver proved to be no different as the crowd of 52,193 fans, mostly of whom were backing the stars and stripes, was the fourth largest to attend a WNT match outside the U.S. Once again, fan support was prominent during the Round of 16 match, and although the crowd was smaller in the mammoth Commonwealth Stadium, a large number of the 19,000 fans that showed up for USA vs. Colombia were decked out in U.S. gear yet again on a Monday night. The U.S. average in World Cup matches so far is 33,550 and the quarterfinal against China at Lansdowne Stadium is already sold out.
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