national team superstars to anchor the marquee Sunday at PNC Stadium. and Mexican women’s national team in 2003. The largest crowd for a women’s soccer match in Texas was 23,176 for a match at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas between the U.S. The Dash easily broke the club attendance record of 13,025, which was set on July 12, 2015. The previous NWSL record crowd was 21,144 for the 2018 NWSL final. The Dash drew a crowd of 21,284, the largest crowd in NWSL history up to that point. The potential for women’s soccer in Houston was on the full display on the pitch and in the stands. If we do the right things next year, we want to create and ignite this passion into our fans like today having more than 20,000, like almost double the record that we had before and how the people were behind, pushing the team, comments at the end, everyone clapping for the players.” “Yeah I think it says a lot of what these players have achieved,” interim Dash coach Juan Carlos Amorós said. The Dash set a franchise attendance record with the second largest crowd to attend a women’s soccer match in Texas. Yordan Alvarez earns ‘El Grande’ nickname For the first time since its inaugural 2014 season, the Dash have momentum unlike anything the club had when women’s national team star Carli Lloyd played here.įresno State DE David Perales sacks San Joseġ8 was enough for Jeremy Peña, a ‘godsend’ The score and the loss weren’t as significant as what the Dash created this year. In the big picture, though, the Dash, women’s soccer and Houston’s soccer community won Sunday. It was an agonizing 2-1 loss against the Kansas City Current. History will show that the Dash lost its first National Women’s Soccer League playoff game. Most of them were young girls, but there were plenty of boys and adults too. Long after the final whistle Sunday evening, hundreds of fans waited along the front row of the stadium. Some of her teammates were in their sports bras after taking off their jerseys to sign them and give them to little girls in the stands. Despite the devastating playoff loss Sunday afternoon, she had a smile on her face while taking selfies and giving autographs. HOUSTON – Almost an hour after the greatest season in Houston Dash history ended, Sophie Schmidt was still on the field at PNC Stadium.
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