>I don't know. Hoping for the US, obviously.
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>Why do the Brazilian players all go by one name? It seems affected to me.

They can't afford two names.

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>>Who do you think will take it?
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>>http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/23/sports/23wsoc.php
>>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/soccer/2003899149_soccer24.html
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>>I'm crossing my fingers for the U.S. but there is Brazil's Marta to contend with ...
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>>>I refereed this afternoon and one of my ARs was a woman who was tremendously excited about the outcome. A few years ago when many of the women on the U.S. team were juniors she and her husband served as chaperones while they were playing in a tournament in Chicago. She said they were delightful young ladies and surprisingly like male athletes -- self-confident to the point of cockiness, raucous, amorous. She said one of them (she said the name but I'm not going to repeat it <g>) who had a boyfriend back in California said if she didn't see him again soon she was going to burst. Terri said they were doing Indian leg wrestling on the rug.