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US! USA! Member of the World Cup-winning women’s soccer team.

“This team deserves more than cheers and parades”, said Alex Little, a soccer fan and attorney in Nashville who started the fundraiser page. Heath, a victor of two Olympic gold medals, was born in Morristown and grew up in Basking Ridge before attending the University of North Carolina. “It’s inspiring to young girls”.

She asserted that “Being a Jersey Girl and having a ticker tape parade – well, it doesn’t get much better than this!”

There were also parades for Amelia Earhart in 1928, as the first woman to complete a trans-Atlantic flight, and a salute to the women in the armed services in 1951, according to the business improvement group for Lower Manhattan, the Downtown Alliance.

Gibson believes the United States is headed in the right direction when it comes to soccer and that the US women gave the country something to believe in.

The honorees will be showered with several tons of confetti made from paper scraps and toilet paper, since the ticker-tape historically used to record telegraphed stock quotes is no longer in use. “It’s wonderful what this team did to really bring this entire nation together – not just for women’s soccer but soccer in general”.

The team begins their ten game victory tour on August 16th at Heinz Field.

“It’s about time, isn’t it?” he said. It’s hung yearly for Flag Day on the bridge that connects New York City with New Jersey. “I’ve had a lot of… experiences throughout my career, but this has to gone down as one of, if not, the best thing I have been a part of in my life”.

“Winning the World Cup was pretty special but today was mind-blowing”, a smiling Ellis said.

The team was greeted by thousands of New Yorkers lined up along Broadway, in lower Manhattan.

Fans cheer while waiting for the start of Friday’s ticker-tape parade in New York City to celebrate the United States women’s soccer team’s World Cup title. She also tied for most goals (six) in the tournament with Celia Sasic of fourth-place Germany.

Megan Rapinoe holds up the World Cup trophy as her float makes it way up the Canyon of Heroes.

They’re clearly working 1/17th as hard as the boys.

Lloyd’s sentiments were echoed by her teammates, including Wambach, the veteran striker who seems to have the last word on many occasions. “Already an awesome crowd”.

“We need our women’s professional league to be sustainable that has to be the focus of our U.S. Federation”, said Gibson.

Even though the women’s soccer team is a national team and not a local team, the push to honor the players with a parade had been fervent.

“I think it’s important the girls have role models”, he said.

The southern end of Broadway is the traditional spot in New York for the parades where workers in tall office buildings once tossed ticker tape onto celebrants below.

City officials estimate the parade will cost $2 million.