SOCCER-WOMEN/PARADE-CROWD Wild screams for Women's World Cup soccer champs in New York parade

Record ID: 147754

  • Title: SOCCER-WOMEN/PARADE-CROWD Wild screams for Women's World Cup soccer champs in New York parade
  • Date: 10th July 2015
  • Summary: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (JULY 10, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF CROWD CHANTING "USA" MEMBERS OF U.S. WOMEN'S SOCCER TEAM ON A FLOAT AND CROWD KITASHA SCREAMING (SOUNDBITE) (English) KITASHA, SAYING: "We won the World Cup baby! Woo! Yeah! 3 stars!" (SOUNDBITE) (English) ANNE, SAYING: "We're the world champs! Woo! USA!" (SOUNDBITE) (English) MARISSA, SAYING: "I love s
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  • Story Text: Screams and a blizzard of confetti cheered the World Cup winning U.S. women's soccer players as they rolled up New York City's "Canyon of Heroes" on Friday (July 10) in the first ticker-tape parade honoring a women's sports team.
    "U-S-A, U-S-A," chanted thousands waving American flags as the parade began moving north from lower Manhattan, cheered by a crowd thick with girls decked out in soccer socks and star-spangled headbands.
    The United States defeated Japan 5-2 in the FIFA Women's World Cup final on Sunday in Vancouver, Canada, the third time the U.S. women have won the title of world champions.
    The victorious women's team joins the ranks of Apollo astronauts, foreign monarchs and baseball's New York Yankees in being honored with a parade and a granite marker on Broadway in lower Manhattan.
    "We won the World Cup baby! Woo! Yeah! 3 stars!" screamed Kitasha. "We're the world champs! Woo! USA!" screamed Anne.
    "I love soccer and I love the women's team," said Marissa. "The U.S. women's soccer team is so amazing. I love soccer," added Riley.
    Members of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team waved to the crowd and Megan Rapinoe held up the World Cup trophy.
    "I saw Abby Wambach. We saw Rampone, Rapinoe. We saw everyone, almost," said Arielle.
    Mia watched the soccer games on television and said, "I was nervous for a lot of the games. I was really excited because I knew that they would win and they'd do it as a team because they are great together."
    The last woman athlete to be honored with a ticker tape parade was Olympic figure skating champion Carol Heiss Jenkins in 1960.
    The New York tradition began in 1886, when people who worked in skyscrapers threw ticker tape - ribbons of white paper on which stock information was recorded in those days - onto a parade celebrating the dedication of the Statue of Liberty.
    With stock information now computerized, ticker tape has been replaced with shredded office paper and confetti. On Thursday, the Downtown Alliance neighborhood group delivered about two tons of shredded paper to more than 50 buildings and tenants along the parade route, a fraction of the paper that will be used.
    The City of New York Department of Sanitation cleaned up more than 34 tons of paper after the New York Giants of the National Football League had its Super Bowl victory parade in 2012. The department will deploy 400 extra sanitation employees to clear debris on Friday.
    The parade will cost the city $1.5 million (USD) and will use $450,000 in private donations.
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