The greatest pressure that the U.S. women's national team faces often isn't from their opponents, the fans or even themselves. It's from history.
Trinity Rodman and Sophia Smith praise Marta ahead of her final match for Brazil in the gold medal match vs. USWNT.
Saturday's final will be the sixth gold medal game for the USWNT , and they've won in four of their previous five appearances. The U.S. has been going through a down period, having been knocked out of the Women's World Cup last summer in the round-of-16, while not making it to the final in the past two Olympics., who is 26, said she and a friend were texting the other day about how they watched the 2012 Olympic final -- when the U.S. beatNow that's she's playing in one, Swanson said:"It's kind of crazy. I think that kind of full-circle moment is pretty cool.
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