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Soccer 'N Sams The game's meaning to young women The coaches The refs The teams Reston Diamante Loudoun Attack Pack Loudoun Valley Girls Loudoun Valley Boys	What is the significance of the soccer experience to young women? This has been captured well on the Women's World Cup web site. The text and central graphic below are from that site:
The Women's World Cup is all about aspirations. The aspirations of parents for their daughters. And the aspirations of young women for themselves.	This is My Game, This is My Future, Watch Me Play	Talk to young women who play soccer and they will tell you of their love for their game. It demands speed, grace and endurance and rewards these skills over size and brute strength.
	It creates an environment where both teamwork and individual excellence is required.
For many young women today, their participation on a soccer team is one of their key formative experiences. Such a generation has never existed before. The explosion of grassroots soccer for girls and women has created a generation of athletes who are not only ready to take their place on the world stage of sports, they are prepared to be leaders in business, politics and society.		This is My Game, This is My Future, Watch Me Play. The theme of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup is designed to capture the importance of the event to the women who will compete and to the girls in the stands who aspire to compete in the future. It also speaks to parents about the importance of the sports experience in building the character and confidence of their daughters.
	The 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup is not a simple sporting event. It is a moment in time to mark the momentous changes in the lives of girls of the past generation and set the sights for those to come.
		The 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup is about soccer at its highest level as well as a celebration of the new role of young women in sports and society.