Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Women’s Soccer Finals Set as United States to Face Brazil for Gold Medal

The women’s soccer finals are set to take place on Thursday with the United States facing off against Brazil in what promises to be an exciting gold medal match at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.



After dropping their opening match of the Olympics to Norway the U.S. women marched through their opponents with purpose to survive group play and then dropped Canada 2-1 in the quarterfinals and drubbed Japan 4-2 in the semis to earn their golden ticket.



As for Brazil, the Samba women survived group play to advance to the quarterfinal round where they knocked of Norway 2-1 and then pounded Germany 4-0 to earn their way to the gold medal match.



Thursday’s women’s soccer finals are set for 9:00 a.m. ET while the bronze medal match between Germany and Japan will take place at 6:00 a.m. ET.

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