What a Kick

How a Clutch World Cup Win Propelled Women's Soccer (Captured History Sports)

By: Emma Carlson-Berne

Narrated by: anonymous

It was the biggest event in the history of women's sports. And for the Americans, it came down to five kicks. After regulation play and two overtimes in the final game of the 1999 women's World Cup soccer match, the score was 0-0. Penalty kicks would decide the world champion. The Chinese and the Americans would each pick five players. One kick per player. With the score tied 4-4, the Americans had one more chance to win it all.

Brandi Chastain was up. If she made her kick, the Americans would win the World Cup. Success! After her winning goal, Chastain dropped to the turf, whipped off her jersey, and screamed with joy. The photo of the triumphant female athlete would circle the globe. Twenty-seven years after Title IX, the world now knew that women's sports had arrived. The victory was more than the end of a soccer game. It was the end of a crusade to prove that women's sports should be taken as seriously as men's. What a win!

©2016 Emma Carlson-Berne (P)2017 Capstone Publishers, Inc.

hashish

the narration appears to suffer from looping making a difficult to follow jumble of chapters

Poorly presented, such a-shame to treats great story in this manner

Disorganized, repeats, half statements, so a great story. But it was poorly presented. I would interested actually hearing this story told, but organize the story.

a mess

this recording is a wreck sentences cut off,repeated. the content could be better organized and more specific and thorough. it makes a mess of a great story.

Disjointed Reading of News Clips

sounded like someone reading bits of magazine and newspaper articles and image captions, sometimes not finishing a sentence. Was this an AI reading of a collection if things related to womens sports, women's soccer, the U.S. team's 1999 World Cup win, sports photographt, and Title Nine? That's what it sounded like. Very disconnected bits of information. Some facts repeated. Had I not lived through this (I attended the final game at the Rose Bowl) I might have been unable to make sense of the puzzle pieces. did not finish listening.

Issues with skipping around

This audiobook skips around almost like the narrator is describing pictures. However there’s were no photos being included in a pdf.