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Photo by Aric Becker/ISI Photos/USSF/Getty Images The best athletes come in a wide, wide variety of personality types. There are those who quietly go about their craft and go nearly unnoticed as they put together impressive and even legendary careers. Others bring attention to their every move and seem to bask not only in the praise of their success but the criticism of their failures. Some are intense, others playful, philosophical, or possessed by a single-minded focus on their work.

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Photo By Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile via Getty Images The USWNT will continue to be without one of its top goal scorers as Mallory Swanson has announced she is pregnant. The forward made the announcement amid her absence from the Chicago Red Stars for personal reasons as the NWSL season got under way. Swanson scored the game winner for the USWNT in the 2024 Paris Olympic gold medal game against Brazil but has not played for the national team since.

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Photo by Kevork Djansezian/USSF/Getty Images for USSF If you wish to win the World Cup, you must first invent the universe. Nobody thought to ask him, but if Carl Sagan was asked how to play soccer he might have said that. Boundless existence, creation, destruction, morality, entropy, a sphere touched perfectly so that it bends to make straight lines unnecessary, 22 humans meeting in a rectangle and interpreting it so that its shape doesn’t matter.

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Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images US Soccer kits have ranged from - nah, to I’d get it at Marshal’s, to OK fine I guess I could use a new jersey, to this isn’t bad. UNTIL NOW. Footy Headlines has uncovered photos that answer the question, when will Nike get with making a kit that is as good as there being banana bread in the breakroom at work? Behold. Frankly, it’s nearly perfect.