Alyssa Thompson, the youngest player on the 2023 United States women’s national soccer team (Uswnt) to compete in the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, kept a speech from team captain Alex Morgan close to her heart after the rattling tie game with Portugal that ended the team’s shaky group stage performance in the summer tournament.
The match versus Portugal, the third of the group stage, featured in the penultimate and final episodes of Rebecca Gitlitz’s Netflix docuseries, “Under Pressure: The U.S Women’s National Team,” along with retired captain Carli Lloyd’s criticism of the team’s performance in the final group stage match. The speech Thompson mentioned resonates with the overall themes of the series, which Gitlitz described as three types of pressure.
“I remember at the end of our Portugal game, Alex gave a really inspiring speech. It was just very scary, that game,...
The match versus Portugal, the third of the group stage, featured in the penultimate and final episodes of Rebecca Gitlitz’s Netflix docuseries, “Under Pressure: The U.S Women’s National Team,” along with retired captain Carli Lloyd’s criticism of the team’s performance in the final group stage match. The speech Thompson mentioned resonates with the overall themes of the series, which Gitlitz described as three types of pressure.
“I remember at the end of our Portugal game, Alex gave a really inspiring speech. It was just very scary, that game,...
- 12/28/2023
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
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