NYC holding parade for champion US women’s soccer team

The last female to receive a ticker tape parade down that route was 1960 Olympic figure skating gold medalist Carol Heiss Jenkins.

Particularly since several of the stars of the US, women’s soccer team are homegrown heroes, including Carli Lloyd who scored three goals and just 16 minutes and was the first woman to score a hat trick in a World Cup final.

The United States Soccer Federation, the team’s governing body, said it hadn’t yet received a formal inquiry and didn’t know of any plans in New York or elsewhere for a parade.

Channel 7 announced the news and tweeted the information out about 5:25 p.m. ET Tuesday.

The parade has been scheduled for Friday at 11 a.m. along Broadway from the Battery to City Hall.

Brewer wrote de Blasio saying this is an “opportunity for New York to recognize that heroes and role models come in all genders”.

The players don’t have strong ties to the city, but that’s hardly a disqualification for a parade, even if the canyon is these days largely reserved for local sports teams.

“These ladies deserve this as much as the Yankees or Mets and all the other so-called sports heroes we have”, said one New Yorker.

The ticker-tape parade first started in New York City in 1886 when Wall Street workers would use the paper strips normally used in the stock ticker to print financial data on to throw as a means of celebration.

The parade is the brainchild of Manhattan borough president and politician Gale Brewer, who recently created an online petition on Change.org to ask New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to grant it to the team.