UCSB’s Harder Stadium was the launch pad for the champions of the first Super Bowl and the first FIFA Women’s World Cup. In 1967, the Green Bay Packers spent a week running drills on the unfrozen turf of UCSB’s recently built football stadium before decamping to Los Angeles, where they demolished the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl I.

A youthful version of the USWNT, captained by Trinity Rodman, opened the year with a 6-0 win over Paraguay on Saturday

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90' Substitute Maddie Dahlien has a bit of fun near the corner flag, outmaneuvering a Chile defender with one cutback after another after another. The opponent is frustrated and commits the foul, earning the USWNT a freekick. Trinity Rodman claims she was on the receiving end of a tug from Yastin Jimenez but not much comes of the complaint.