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SPORTS Thursday 9 March 2017

POINT

DIRK-STER

France midfielder Camille
Abily (10) battles for the
ball against United States
midfielder Rose Lavelle
(16) during the first half of a
SheBelieves Cup women’s
soccer match, Tuesday,
March 7, 2017, in Washington.
Associated Press

U.S. women

lose

consecutive
home games

for 1st time

since ‘00

WASHINGTON (AP) — The
U.S. women’s soccer team
lost consecutive home
games for the first time in
17 years, stumbling to a
3-0 defeat to France on a
rainy Tuesday night in the
SheBelieves Cup.
The Americans have
faltered since winning the
2015 Women’s World Cup.
They were knocked out
of last summer’s Olympics
with a penalty-kicks loss to
Sweden in the quarterfinals
and after winning the
opener of this tournament
against Germany, lost 1-0
to England last weekend in Nowitzki becomes 6th player to reach 30,000
New Jersey.
The U.S. had not lost back- career points
to-back matches at home
since a pair of exhibitions Dallas Mavericks’ Dirk Nowitzki (41) of Germany acknowledges
against Norway in February cheers from fans during a time out after Nowitzki scored his 30,000th
2000. career point in the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Los
Angeles Lakers in Dallas, Tuesday, March 7, 2017.
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