Women’s World Cup champs welcomed at City Hall following NYC ticker-tape

“From driving an hour away to play club soccer to having my dad coach me and my sisters for high school soccer, we have lived and breathed the game of soccer”.

A few female athletes have been honored in the Canyon of Heroes, CBS News correspondent Anna Werner reported.

“I love how they’re role models and we can look up to them, and they can teach us new skills that we can do someday”, said Meghan Carragher, 10. “It’s inspiring to young girls”.

For more than a century, tens of thousands of New Yorkers and visitors have made the pilgrimage to the Canyon of Heroes to honor world leaders like Nelson Mandela, heroes like Neil Armstrong and athletes like gold medal victor Jesse Owens. There were also parades for Amelia Earhart in 1928, as the first woman to complete a transatlantic 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. In NYC, the winning ladies received a huge ticker-tape parade and HollywoodLife.com has all the pictures for your viewing pleasure!

Modell told Nicolini the women’s national team’s win has been like Christmas in July because sales have picked up tremendously.

As confetti rained down on the team, proud Americans and fans chanted “U!S!A!” as the players passed on the floats.

Nikki Adams, a center midfielder for the University of Delaware’s women’s soccer team, said she believes men’s sports always will have more public interest in the US.

“It’s about time, isn’t it?” he said. “I think the most exciting part about the World Cup win for the U.S. team was seeing the recognition it got from everybody”.

The victory of the USA women’s team in the World Cup on Sunday was the most-watched soccer match in American history. Meanwhile, sites like World Soccer Shop list 15 different kinds of Adidas footwear bearing the name Lionel Messi, arguably the world’s best men’s player, and dozens and dozens of other Messi jerseys, T-shirts, shin guards, and collectibles. “Nobody works harder than them”. “Already an incredible crowd”. On Friday, the team will make history again with the first-ever New York City ticker-tape parade celebrating a women’s team. It’s hung yearly for Flag Day on the bridge that connects New York City with New Jersey.

The team will travel through Manhattan aboard floats, heading up Broadway from Battery Park to City Hall, where Mayor Bill de Blasio will address the team and the crowd.

The discrepancy in prize money – the victor of the Women’s U.S. Open will receive $810,000, compared with the $1.8 million won by Jordan Spieth at last month’s men’s U.S. Open – has been well documented among all the sports, and that’s not going to change any time soon.