'The most wonderful time in women’s soccer': NC Courage and the NWSL are making the women’s game boom
In the peak of her career, Carla Overbeck, assistant coach of the Duke women’s soccer team, was working two jobs. She balanced the assistant coaching gig for the Blue Devils with her position as a starter on the U.S. Women’s National Team. Most of the year, Overbeck trained by herself. In 1995, when the U.S. women got third place in the World Cup, there was not a professional women’s soccer league in America. In 1996, when they won Gold at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, there was not a professional women’s soccer league in America. In 1999, when Overbeck captained her team to a World Cup final victory, there was not a professional women’s soccer league in America.