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The Padres have company as a San Diego sports team with a reasonable chance to win a breakthrough title.Some of you just rolled your eyes. That’s OK. Two years ago, who envisioned a women’s soccer team would draw crowds of 16,000 to 32,000 to Mission Valley?If Alex Morgan and her teammates were to succeed in winning the NWSL championship, local soccer aficionados would have their largest San Diego victory to celebrate.
Take the NCAA championship women’s basketball game last week. LSU’s win over Iowa drew 9.9 million viewers. The previous mark: 5.7 million. That was just one year ago. “It was truly amazing just watching soccer explode in this country,” former U.S. goalkeeper Briana Scurry told interviewer Olivia Christian in a retrospective. “But, it wasn’t just soccer that exploded in my opinion. I think it was powerful women in general. I know that my life and what I’ve done in it has positively affected millions.”
Decades ago, who would’ve forecast 1.12 billion people would watch a Women’s World Cup, the FIFA-estimated viewing audience for the 2019 event in France?
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