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SAN DIEGO -- The United States women's shot squad won the inaugural Concacaf W Gold Cup connected Sunday pursuing a 1-0 triumph implicit Brazil astatine Snapdragon Stadium successful San Diego, California.
US skipper Lindsey Horan scored the lone extremity of the lucifer with a superb back-post header conscionable moments earlier half-time.
It was acold from a vintage show from the US, which is undergoing somewhat of a rebuild aft past year's World Cup disappointment, but it did conscionable capable to support Brazil retired during a choky final.
"This is simply a radical that's moving guardant together, that inactive wants much clip together. It's clip to spell backmost to nine [seasons] for them and bash those things, but we genuinely bask being unneurotic and consciousness similar we're conscionable getting started," said interim manager Twila Kilgore aft the win, per ESPN.
"This is simply a radical that's conscionable getting started."
All the US players celebrated connected the tract astatine the last whistle, arsenic the 31,528 spectators successful attendance cheered on.
It was acold from an casual roadworthy to the rubric for the US.
On Wednesday, the squad snuck past Canada successful a semifinal punishment shootout with the crippled being played connected a heavy waterlogged transportation successful San Diego aft torrential rainfall fell successful the build-up. As a result, immense sections of lasting h2o affected the way of the shot and players' quality to tally astatine gait with it astatine their feet and some spectators and Canada's caput manager called the crippled "unplayable."
New chapter
The run besides progressive a daze decision to Mexico successful the radical signifier - it was conscionable the 2nd clip La Tri has beaten the US successful 43 fixtures, with its lone erstwhile triumph coming backmost successful 2010.
But, contempt the setbacks, the US recovered a mode to triumph and tin present boast 15 trophies astatine a Concacaf title tournament. This, though, was the archetypal clip it had won the recently configured W Gold Cup tournament.
After scoring 4 goals, US guardant Jaedyn Shaw was named the champion subordinate of the tournament, with the 19-year-old helping to usher successful a caller epoch for the nationalist team.
"I deliberation that it's honestly a truly steadfast situation due to the fact that it's truthful challenging, but we each truly promote each different and we marque definite that we are each successful this unneurotic and that's yet however we won this tournament," Shaw told CBS Sports aft the win.
In its adjacent game, the US is acceptable to play Japan successful the SheBelieves Cup astatine Mercedes Benz Stadium, Atlanta, connected April 6.
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