Vogueのインスタグラム(voguemagazine) - 7月17日 23時11分

Meet four of the most exciting new stars of U.S. women’s soccer. @sophsssmith, @alyssthomp, @naomi_girma, and @taylorkornieck all represent a new generation of standout scorers, defenders, and possible household names in the soccer world and beyond.

Until recent years, fame, fortune, and fashion portraits have not typically been the realm of US women’s soccer. The National Women’s Soccer League, or NWSL, is this country’s third attempt at a women’s professional league, after the Women’s United Soccer Association (2000–2003) and Women’s Professional Soccer (2007–2012). Players once had to go overseas to more-­established clubs and footie-friendly cultures to make their careers. “When I was growing up thinking about going pro, I was thinking about playing for PSG [Paris Saint-Germain] or Barcelona or something like that,” Alyssa Thompson says. The 18-year-old rookie phenom and number one league draft pick made headlines when she decided to forgo Stanford after she finished high school at Harvard-​Westlake this year, signing with Los Angeles’s Angel City instead (media outlets call her “the LeBron James of soccer”). But why should Thompson wait? The league is growing, she says, “and it’s just supercool that I get to be a part of it.”

Much of that growth can be attributed to four #WorldCup wins (including the last two, in 2015 and 2019) and the US team’s fierce advocacy for equal pay (which, after a six-year legal battle between USWNT players and the US Soccer Federation, resulted in a settlement out of court last year) and LGBTQ+ rights. The world is catching up, with even Netflix joining the wave. The streaming platform recently announced a new multi-episode doc series that will follow the U.S. women’s World Cup team and even feature veteran champions including Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe.

As the World Cup kicks off on July 20 in Australia and New Zealand, the US is the team to beat, with a chance to earn a third consecutive trophy, unprecedented across FIFA.

At the link in our bio, from inside Vogue's August issue, meet four standout soccer stars who represent the future of the sport. Photographed by Brian Finke, styled by @gabriellak_j, Vogue, August 2023.

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