Before it becomes a Netflix film, The Girls of Summer is worth revisiting.
This week, longtime New York Times reporter Jere Longman joins the show to discuss his book “The Girls of Summer: The U.S. Women’s Soccer Team” and How It Changed the World,” the story that inspired the upcoming on screen adaptation and why the 1999 team still resonated more than 25 years later.
The conversation explores how a tournament with little marketing became the largest women’s sporting event in history, why the success of the 1999 team was about far more than soccer and how the movement they helped build continues to shape women’s sports.
