The Women’s World Cup is finally back

Somehow it has been almost four years since the last Women’s World Cup match was played but I can still vividly remember every moment of that day. I was getting ready to watch the USA women’s national soccer team play in the final against Japan as we looked for revenge from the loss in the 2011 final.

It did not take long for all those nerves to turn in to hugs, chants and spilled beverages among hundreds of soccer fans in red, white and blue at the Black Warrior Brewing Company in Tuscaloosa. Carli Lloyd found a way to score in the first three minutes of the match, the fastest goal in a Women’s World Cup final, to put the U.S. ahead 1-0.