Swanson celebrates personal milestone with Olympic final opener 🇺🇸

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Emily Wilson·10 August 2024

Swanson celebrates personal milestone with Olympic final opener 🇺🇸

The United States and Brazil battled for gold in women’s Olympic football on Saturday and it was a nervy first hour of football.

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The USWNT eventually broke the deadlock (which proved to be the winner) when Mallory Swanson delivered the goods on her 100th cap.

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After smartly staying onside, she drove into the box and rolled home beyond the Brazil keeper from a tight angle.

She is the ninth USWNT player to score on her 100th cap, and third to do so in a major tournament alongside Abby Wambach and Lindsey Horan.

10 - The #USWNT has scored the opening goal in 10 of its 11 major-tournament finals (0-0 vs. China in the 1999 World Cup Final). Ahead.
– Saturday, 10 August 2024

Brazil showed they wouldn’t go down without a fight but ultimately fell short of a comeback.