The National Team: The Inside Story of the Women Who Changed Soccer (Caitlin Murray)
Chapter 1: "We're Not Very USA-ish"
Murray opens her history of the U.S. Women's National Team in 1985, Marty Mankamyer, Betty D'Anjolell, and Mavis Derflinger successfully lobbied the U.S. Soccer Federation to develop women's soccer programming.
An amateur competition in Baton Rouge, Louisiana yielded a 17-player roster and the inaugural U.S. Women's National Team competed in makeshift uniforms in Italy a week later.
The opening chapter then closes with a brief account of the U.S.'s winning efforts in the inaugural Women's World Cup in 1991, a championship that went largely unrecognized at the time.
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