There are several factors that may have contributed to the early dominance of the United States women’s national soccer team. In England, women playing soccer was effectively banned (at least at venues that hosted men’s teams) from 1921 to 1971, and in Germany it was banned from 1955 to 1970. At around the time Title IX was heating up in the United States, women’s international soccer basically didn’t exist. United States. They competed in the FIFA Women’s World Cup, the Summer Olympics, and the Algarve Cup, in addition to the CONCACAF Women’s Championship and other competitions by invitation. For as much as the rest of the world loves soccer, it has been much slower to embrace the women’s game than the U.S.
