(crowds chanting)
- It's not only about sport.
- [Commentator] Messi, Messi, Messi!
- It's not just about amazing ability.
- [Male] Football is a language in itself.
It surpasses all barriers.
- [Male] When I get the ball at my feet,
I feel absolute love.
- [Male] When it gets to the pitch, we are on equal grounds.
- Leo was born like this.
- [Commentator] Messi, Messi, Messi, Messi!
- [Female] The goosebumps and the emotions, phenomenal.
- Football can help bring communities together.
- [Male] We could become bigger and greater,
through football.
- [Male] Football is not a game.
It's emotion.
It comes from the heart.
- I started playing football in elementary school,
when I lived in the countryside.
It was a time when old ladies would tell us to stop playing football.
- I grew up watching men's basketball.
Those were my idols.
I didn't even know a woman footballer to look up to.
- [Announcer] Please welcome the United States'
Women's National Team.
(crowd cheering)
(camera shutters clicking)
The national team of Japan will take on
the US Women's National Team.
- My older brother played, my mom was always
taking him to practice.
She was just like here's a ball, you guys can go run around.
Can't remember a time where I didn't love it.
- I used to go to the park and just play with boys
that were just playing pick up.
We'd go to the field, I would take shots,
but I always had a ball with me.
- My heroes were boys a couple of years older than me.
- I never thought, "I'm a girl, and they're boys."
I just wanted to be like them,
so I practiced with them every day.
(waves crashing)
(calm music)
- There weren't any girls playing in football teams.
My father made me a goal at home.
I was ten when I joined the same team
as the boys from my school.
I was the only girl.
Everyone would come to look for
the only girl playing.
The moment of running past my opponent,
dribbling the ball, making a perfect pass,
it felt so good.
I was instantly hooked on football.
Women's football wasn't well-known back then.
To strengthen the game, we had to
start a league and compete to improve.
(drums)
(applause)
When the league started, there were six teams.
The opening ceremony was quite grand.
There were balloons...
I scored the first goal in the Ladies League.
It felt great.
- Get Angeline up in an attacking position more.
I grew up a girl in America who fell in love
and loved soccer.
Ultimately my number one was George Best when he became
a member of the San Jose Earthquakes in 1980.
I saw him play...
I think I was 11.
- [Commentator] Best, maneuvering unbelievably.
Best still has it. I don't believe this move.
That's the greatest soccer goal I've ever seen. Wow!
- [Brandi] The crowd was just roaring,
the ball was stuck to his foot.
- [Commentator] Oh man!
- [Brandi] Just phenomenal.
- [Commentator] Outstanding.
- I thought, that's it.
That's what I'm gonna do.
Oh my gosh, I fell in love with soccer.
And it was so exciting, the energy was visceral.
It was physical, it was fast, you could get dirty.
It gave me an outlet to be all the things
that I like to be.
The popularity of soccer in America,
when I was growing up, was fairly low,
in comparison to all the other sports that we had.
For a long time I got a lot of,
why are you playing that immigrant sport,
that foreign sport, that...
Nobody likes that.
When you turn on a sports channel, you rarely get a
women sports highlight, let alone a main story.
Women's soccer was anonymous.
- [Female] Up, up, hold your line!
Hold your line now, hold!
- As I was matriculating from High School to College,
there was no platform for women to play professional soccer.
We weren't doing it for fame,
we weren't doing it for trophies.
We loved soccer.
I went to the national team for training camp for two weeks,
and I think we'd make five to 10 dollars a day.
And we're like, we're stealing money.
FIFA was like, we're not gonna call it the World Cup.
We'll call it the M&Ms cup.
You look at the way the team prepared,
our standards are so high.
You know, our desire is so great.
We went to a China that was less cars,
lots of people,
and we played in these beautiful, big stadiums
out in the middle of, could be nowhere.
- You couldn't watch women's football back then.
We had no information on our opponents.
That World Cup made me realise the huge gap
between us and the rest of the world.
We played against Sweden...
we lost 8-0.
I just wanted that match to be over.
- [Commentator] In their final match, Japan
lost three nil to the USA.
They left China with just tears and memories.
- To be a part of the team was a phenomenal experience.
There's this physical rush you get,
there's an emotional snapshot of the moment.
A team camaraderie.
The look into the stands.
It's thrilling.
Then when we get onto the bus, we're signing these cards!
We're handing them out the bus and it was like,
oh, my God!
Like, it was so... cool.
- [Commentator] Women's world championship final,
Norway in red against the USA.
- [Brandi] I remember being so excited and invigorated.
- [Commentator] Akers' stalled.
She's through here, she's round the goalkeeper
and she's scored the winning goal
in the women's world championship final.
- We're celebrating after and we get the trophy.
Kinda took that step back to go like, wow,
that's a really important thing that just happened.
When we got to New York, it was absolutely crickets.
We happened to run into a reporter at the airport who,
you know, was knowledgeable,
and was like, hey, what's going on?
And we're like, hey we won the World Cup.
And he was like, I should probably write about that.
And we're like, yeah, write about that.
The American public had no idea.
Every game, there's this anticipation of a crowd
and a desire for a crowd.
But, that didn't happen.
- When Japan created the men's league,
football suddenly became quite popular.
- But women's football wasn't welcomed as part of Japanese culture.
It was being rejected.
Really only our friends were watching on the stands, around 100 people.
- The first time I watched a women's football match,
you could see an offical counting spectators by hand.
If it rained, you were looking at dozens.
- Women were being ignored,
and it felt so miserable.
It became really hard to keep the teams going.
To continue playing football, I had to go and work.
I'd work from the morning onwards,
and practice in the evening.
I had no time to rest.
We had no idea what the future held, which worried us.
- FIFA mandated that it take place along the East Coast,
in small five to ten thousand seat stadiums,
because women's soccer hadn't been a proven entity
as a commercial enterprise and, you know,
they didn't have a huge expectation for it.
We believed that the women athletes,
the women soccer players, deserved the respect
of the much larger platform.
We wanted to put the tournament across the country,
in several time zones in major NFL stadiums.
- Our record in 1995 was, like, 7,000 fans.
Right, that was like the largest crowd
we've ever played in, something like that.
So to go and try to fill these stadiums,
people thought it was ridiculous.
- There was a fear, you know, what would
the atmosphere be if you were in a 80,000 seat stadium
with only a couple thousand people there?
We had to convince FIFA that there was
some viable way to do this.
I felt like there was a lot on the line
so I was excited and nervous.
- How can we put this thing in big stadiums?
At the time, we figured, well what's the best advertisement
for the women's World Cup is the team.
- These were all great girls.
They were educated, intelligent, articulate.
They were all about building their sport.
Just the sheer joy they showed playing soccer
and playing together as a team.
We believed that we could sell that to the American public.
We came up with a mission statement
and that mission statement is to stage a breakthrough event
for women's sports, and to inspire the next generation
of female athletes.
- You know at first it was like, hey, are you really
gonna be in Giants Stadium and then in the Rose Bowl?
Yeah, it's gonna be awesome, we're gonna fill the stadiums,
it'll be great and then the camera goes off,
and we're, like, are we really doing this?
- There was no social media.
It was kind of like hand to hand combat.
- Every player went out into the communities,
the different states, the different clubs.
Speaking engagements and fundraisers and that kind of thing.
We were literally out there.
We let the kids and the parents actually get to know us.
We held babies, we kissed them, we did clinics for kids,
no stone unturned, we did everything.
- We really had no idea what the response would be.
- Here you go. You're welcome.
- It started gaining this momentum.
People started sorta feeling, you know that maybe
there's something happening there
but we just really didn't know, you know.
- The women's World Cup of soccer begins this Saturday
at several sites in the United States.
They say it's the largest women's only
sporting event in the world.
(cheering)
- We're on the bus to that first game and we get caught
in this traffic jam, and we're, like, what's going on here?
All these cars had, like, signs on 'em saying, you know,
"Go USA," "Team USA," "Women's World Cup," and this,
and we're, like, wait a minute, these people
are here for our game.
- Take a picture of that.
- It was awe inspiring.
- Hey guys, Lori Spayler Just called,
we just wanted to wish y'all the best of luck.
- For so long we talked about, oh, my God, I hope they come.
They were coming.
Families, boys and girls, girls with face paint,
hair done, US jerseys, balloons.
It was like a fan fest.
- We're showing our spirit man.
We gotta show USA is number one.
- It's a large crowd of people.
- [Journalist] You think it might get a little nuts?
- Yep. - (cheering)
- This is the culmination of two and a half years
working on this. It just all came together.
This bastion of men's American football, you know,
it was brimming with people. It was incredible.
- [Commentator] Hamm brings it onto her left foot.
Shoots.
Goal!
Julie Foudy shot and goal!
Kristine Lilly scores!
- All eyes in the soccer world are on the
women's World Cup tournament now underway
across the Unites States before sell out crowds.
- [Commentator] Hamm breaks free.
And scores!
Tiffany Milbrett.
The USA take the lead.
Parlow, goal!
- I got to go up to one of the games with my sister.
I remember my mom dropping us off,
got sit in the stands and watch.
It was something that I said to myself, you know,
I would love to be a part of that.
- [Commentator] Cross is from Hamm,
Akers climbs, and scores.
That's the final whistle.
(cheering)
- That's what they call a rout baby. Rout!
Woo! We won!
- They were so different to Japanese players.
Not just passing, but their timing.
- [Commentator] The USA, one up and in control.
Their speed, power and height
made me feel how far behind we still were.
- [Commentator] Akers steps up.
Goal! The USA will play
in the final of the women's World Cup.
- I felt the American's sheer force
more than ever.
- Soccer is really hot in this country,
and women's soccer's even hotter thanks to a US team
that will face China in the Rose Bowl on Saturday.
At stake, the world championship.
(crowd chanting)
- It was a beautiful Southern California day
which means it was so damn hot.
Upwards and over 100 degrees.
- We're in the tunnel, you can just hear rumbling.
All these camera flashes going off.
Red, white and blue everywhere.
All of a sudden, disjointed noise had a voice.
(crowd chanting) USA! USA! USA!
- I think we all had supreme belief
we could win the World Cup, and you have to have that.
- We were prepared for China.
They were our arch nemesis, and they were ready for us.
- You play 90 minutes of scoreless soccer against
arguably the best team in the world.
- [Commentator] Referee blows.
A penalty shoot out will decide the winner
of the '99 women's World Cup.
- [Briana] I was honing all of my energy.
That 90,000 crowd,
I felt them and their will, but I didn't hear them.
- [Commentator] Wait for the whistle.
Huilin shoots. China lead.
Overbeck, goal!
One each.
Qui steps up, scores.
Goal!
Never in doubt.
- When I was 12 years old, my teacher passed this flyer out
to everyone, and there was a little stick soccer figure on it,
and it said, "Hey, come sign up for soccer."
Once I got to the boy's team they said,
"Hey, you know you're the only girl on the team,
and we wanna protect you, so we'll put you in the goal."
- [Commentator] Save, Scurry!
With this penalty, Chastain could win
the World Cup for the USA.
- [Brandi] All I remember is the talk in my head,
don't look at the goalkeeper, don't look at the goalkeeper.
That was the way I felt in that moment.
I hear the whistle.
Took the team like a second to get there,
and then it was just us all together.
We were exhausted two minutes ago
and now you're at the top of the world.
- And I'm American!
- [Brandi] You could finally breathe.
- Brandi Chastain taking her top off after scoring the winning goal...
that really left a mark on me.
I wanted to become world number one.
- [Reporter] America's newest sports heroines
joined their fans celebrating US women's soccer.
- I think I was 13 or 14 at the time.
To see the game on that level,
the excitement that was in the country.
Just incredible.
It not only was a big deal but it looked
and felt like a big deal and everybody treated it
as if it was the most important thing.
- [Reporter] Watershed for women athletes worldwide.
- [Female] These women became heroes overnight.
Everybody wanted a piece of that team.
- [Reporter] The US women's soccer team reached the White House.
The President called their victory
in the World Cup final against China,
America's triumph.
- All of a sudden there's commercials
with women footballers.
It was inspiring.
This is the moment where I know I can actually do this.
I can have a career being a footballer.
- We started the women's professional league
and I was playing here in San Jose, my hometown,
on the same field that George Best got to play on.
I mean, it was like full circle for me.
- It inspired young women to...
feel okay about, if I'm a little tomboyish that's okay.
If I'm a little bit faster, that's okay.
If I kick like a boy, that's okay.
It made it mainstream.
- I wanted to go to America in order to grow...
I wanted to train with these amazing players,
that was my goal.
- [Commentator] Kylie Bivens working her way around Marshall.
In front, Sawa redirection scores.
Homare Sawa!
- It was difficult to see footage of Sawa playing back then.
Once in a while, we'd find pictures of her
battling for the ball.
She didn't seem intimidated by the Americans.
You'd see her go toe to toe with them.
"Sawa's so cool."
I remember thinking that.
Sawa had visited my elementary school.
We played together, but it was just for a TV show.
That was the first time that I met her.
- So what do you want to be when you grow up?
- I want to be an international footballer.
- I hope we can play together for Japan one day.
- All I could think was that one day,
I'd like to be her teammate.
The parks nearby were always busy,
so we'd say, "Let's go to the beach."
I'd go on my own too.
And get told off for staying out late.
I began to dream
of being in the number one team in the world.
(children playing)
- Compared to other countries, we weren't that strong,
and still had a long way to go.
- There aren't many female professional footballers in Japan.
Hardly any at all.
Many women footballers work in an office during the day,
then train in the evening, that was the norm.
- I worked at the Fukushima Nuclear Plant.
I was in the chief assistant's department.
I would work from 9am to midday,
train from 3pm to 5pm.
People would ask, "Why not do something
more meaningful than football?"
- I had a part-time job cleaning baths.
It was at a hot spring.
I cleaned a lot of baths.
- On 24th April 2004, there was a match against North Korea.
It was Japan's chance to secure a place at the Olympics.
There's also a political aspect to all this.
In October 2002, some Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea
had returned to Japan.
But there were reports that other hostages hadn't been released.
I think there was a really strong feeling
that Japan didn't want to lose to North Korea.
(crowd chanting)
32,000 people turned up.
In the first minute...
Sawa shoulder-barged the North Korean player
who was running with the ball.
Now Japan had possession.
- We all felt like we had to do even more
because Sawa was doing so much.
- Sawa made us think we could win.
- That game lasted 90 minutes,
but I only watched about one minute.
The other 89 minutes I just cried.
- It was that match that made people take notice of the team.
- It was decided the team should have a nickname.
- And so it's official, the team is now named "Nadeshiko Japan".
- Nadeshiko is a graceful, delicate and beautiful flower.
- I think it's saying don't forget your national pride
and Japanese identity when playing for your country.
- We all set a target
of becoming "Nadeshiko of the world."
- He made us go right back to basics.
- I tried to improve their skills...
defensive team tactics...
offensive attacks...
how to obstruct your opponent
and how to take away their initiative.
They practiced hard, but were also really cheerful.
When they cry, they all cry.
When they laugh, they are all smiles.
- Coach Sasaki was a bit like a dad.
He used to tell jokes.
- At the East Asia tournament...
we won three consecutive matches.
We won the tournament.
I wondered, who should captain a team aiming for victory?
I realised there was only one person...
that was Sawa.
- I remember him saying,
"If we set our target to become
the top team in the world, it will come true."
I thought he must be joking.
- The World Cup takes place once every four years.
- Japan.
- By 2011, the Nadeshiko team were almost perfect.
We didn't tell them what to do.
The players were holding meetings, analysing their opponents.
Like this we let the players take control.
(ominous rumbling)
- I thought, "Oh God, I'm going to die."
I ran outside with nothing at all.
- I called home.
My parents said, "We're fine,
but we can't get in touch with your grandparents."
- So the epicenter has now been placed closer to Japan. Not only that...
- [Reporter] Very widespread warning covering that whole...
(speaking in foreign language)
- [Reporter 2] 90 kilometers per hour
so it's certainly conceivable that we have already...
- [Reporter 3] Never seen this, we're watching
a live tsunami hit Japan.
- [Reporter 4] Just looking at these images,
it's hard not to think that Japan...
- [Reporter 5] ...destroyed, homes disappeared, trains are missing too...
- [Reporter 6] ...says that partial radioactive meltdowns may have
occurred at two nuclear reactors damaged in Friday's...
- [Female Reporter] Officials say cooling systems in some reactors
have failed, and some radiation...
- The media reported Fukushima nuclear power plant
was in serious trouble.
My mother was living alone in Fukushima.
- I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
I was worried about my house, my precious friends and colleagues.
I'd seen so much on the news.
(tense music)
I was constantly thinking, "What's going to happen?"
- [Reporter] At least 1700 people are now officially listed
as dead or missing.
There are reports that nearly 10,000 people
can't be contacted in the small port of Minamisanriku.
"What shall I do?"
I really thought my heart was going to break.
- [Female Reporter] Still struggling with the after effects of the disaster.
The death toll is expected to reach 28,000.
Another 150,000 people are living in shelters...
- We spoke amongst ourselves countless times,
asking, "Is it OK to play in the World Cup
when Japan is going through such a difficult time?"
- I questioned whether it was right to play football.
There were so many people...
- What should we do?
We decided the best thing was...
to play and encourage people with our performance.
- I always wanted to win a World Cup.
Not win a gold medal in the Olympics,
I wanted that World Cup trophy.
Our team was playing well.
Things were looking really good.
It's being hosted in Germany,
they're the favorites, we're the favorites.
I mean this is everything you could ever
wish for in a World Cup.
- As the tournament went on, the excitement rose,
and there was just some of the best football being played.
- [Commentator] And Laudehr.
Oh, that's brilliant!
- Our expectations are the same all the time.
They're win or bust.
Win every gold medal, win every World Cup,
win every game, dominate every game.
- [Commentator] Brazil and the USA,
for this long anticipated rematch between
two hugely talented sides.
It's now or never.
Rapinoe into the mix.
Wambach!
That's it, the USA win.
What a stunning victory against their arch rivals.
The tournament favorites never lost their belief.
- Japan made it to the quarter-finals and faced Germany.
I thought that was going to be tough.
I had played against Germany a few years before.
I'd been shocked.
They were probably the strongest team after America.
They were big...
they were tall...
and powerful.
I felt they were much better than Japan.
- Before going to the stadium, I packed all my bags ready to head home.
I'd write my report and then fly back to Japan.
Well, that was my plan anyway.
- Before the Germany game, the staff had made a motivational video for us.
I have memories of seeing some footage from the disaster.
- [Reporter] It's the dark legacy that may weigh longest on Japan.
The trauma of the tsunami.
Japan is wracked by grief, and also,
among many survivors, guilt.
- I am not sure how to describe my feelings.
I was deeply moved.
Grateful to all those who supported us.
Full of feelings like that.
- None of us could stop crying.
- [Commentator] A packed stadium here in Wolfsburg
for the hosts and world champions as they take on Japan
in an intriguing quarter final.
Desperate defense from Japan again.
Laudehr cuts back inside.
That's extra time. Japan have stood so strong.
Japan have given everything this evening.
Maruyama!
It's a brilliant goal!
From an unbelievable angle.
Germany are out.
Japan are through to the semi finals.
The final score, in front of a stunned home crowd,
Germany nil, Japan one.
- Japan beat Sweden and made it through to the final.
We'd never beaten America.
They were tough opponents.
- It's been 12 years since the US women's soccer team
transfixed the nation on it's way to winning the World Cup.
Now the current team is on the verge of taking...
- [Female Reporter] But for these 21 American women
today's work out in Frankfurt, Germany is one to treasure.
The final run through before
playing Japan for the World Cup.
- [Commentator] Hello and welcome to Franfurt,
where, in just a few hours from now, the United States
or Japan will be crowned FIFA world champions.
(camera shutters clicking)
- My aim is to be the best in the world.
I can't wait to play.
I remember saying, "I think we can beat America."
It seemed to surprise everybody.
- It may be the middle of the night in Japan
but thousands have stayed up to watch the action unfold.
- Knowing what Japan had done,
I don't think anyone took them lightly.
They all seemed to just kind of have one brain
and all these tentacles that worked together.
I was pretty nervous.
- I was in the zone, I don't think anything could come
in my way of wanting to bring that trophy home.
It just was time.
Time to kinda put everything to bed and go out there,
fight, make it happen.
- [Commentator] 48,000 welcome the two teams.
- I'm not sure there's anything sweeter than
walking onto the field all suited up, game ready,
hair slicked back.
Look good and feel good, play good.
That's what I always say.
And we felt good.
- USA!
- There's no better feeling than walking out into a full stadium.
It still just gives me chills every time I think about it.
- [Commentator] It's a dream come true for Japan
to have gone this far.
- Taking on America in the finals felt like an honor.
That excitement vanished
as soon as the whistle was blown.
(whistle blows)
- Japan get the honor
of getting the World Cup final underway.
Although straight away, they've given away possession.
And the USA are showing their speed and power
right from the start.
Oh goodness me, they might be in right at the start.
It's the United States.
Nearly a goal in the opening minute.
- The energy levels of the Americans were astonishing.
- O'Reilly, cuts it back, another chance,
they're getting closer.
Here's Wambach and it's only just over.
- They were faster and better than I'd imagined.
I was thinking, "Oh my God,
I'm playing against someone that tall?"
- We thought, "Is this one going in? Is that one going in?"
- Here's Wambach.
One look, one thought, one shot off the bar.
- We knew we had to do something.
We were just hanging in there,
just defending.
That's what it felt like.
- Another save from Kaihori, keeping Japan in it.
- The team was confused.
I told them to calm down.
It was up to them to play their own game.
- Sakaguchi, the pressure.
Small smart passing this is the sort of stuff
that we've come to expect from the Japanese.
It's a good ball from Miyama.
Starting to dominate the midfield.
Shinobu Ohno now threads a pass through,
but Ando can't quite reach it.
But this is much better from Japan.
Honors even at the break, this game is wide open.
USA were favorites going into this game,
looks much more evenly balanced now.
Rapinoe, going over the top for Alex Morgan to chase,
and Morgan has got a sight of goal.
It is a brilliant strike.
The USA finally make their mark.
USA one, Japan nil.
- If we stop now, we'll be beaten.
Everyone had to hold on.
- 20 minutes remain now.
- We had to run more, run harder,
wait for our chance to steal the ball.
- Everybody was inspired by how Sawa played.
Her just being there
kept us together.
- Time is running out.
Japan desperate to take the game into extra time.
There's real confusion at the back here!
Japan have scored!
Aya Miyama can hardly believe her luck.
It's level, it's one-one.
The USA are reeling.
(whistle blows)
And that's it.
The World Cup final will have 30 minutes more.
Japan have gone toe to toe
with the best side in the world.
Really hard to pick a winner now,
both sides have had their chances.
One small mistake might do it.
One good cross might do it!
Wambach has done it!
Heart break for Japan!
- I was in despair.
- USA two, Japan one.
- Even though I felt despair,
I could see Sawa shouting.
She was saying, "We can still do this!"
- We are into the last few minutes of extra time.
Sawa. Oh, she's played a lovely ball.
Kinga is in.
That's gonna be cleared away.
- We were running out of time.
I just wanted to get on with the game.
- Corner is whipped across, and there's Sawa!
An unbelievable finish from Japan's captain!
Two-two!
Japan do not know when they're done.
This final has a way to go.
(whistle blows)
Bibiana Steinhaus calls time.
The World Cup final is going the full distance.
It's penalties. Let the drama begin.
- I told them they were great.
To have come this far against a team we'd never beaten.
I didn't feel we had to win the penalties.
- It's only the second World Cup final that's
gone to penalties, and who can forget the USA's
famous victory the last time?
Kaihori saves.
Pure instinct from Japan's keeper.
Miyama, no doubt at all.
Lloyd, and she's sent it miles over.
Goodness me.
That's a super stop from Hope Solo.
And Kaihori does it again.
Japan have a clear advantage.
And it's just squeezed past Hope Solo.
Wambach, no mistake.
Is it all too late for the USA?
It's Saki Kumagai.
Just 20 years old.
The world is at her feet.
(whistle blows)
History is made.
Japan become the first Asian team
to win the women's World Cup.
It's another extraordinary upset.
First Germany, now the tournament favorites.
The queens of the game, the USA,
have fallen to the brilliant Japanese.
- All of us, just heartbroken.
After the game, Aya Miyama, who I admire and I respect,
came up to me, she said, "Hope,
"so sorry, I know how much this World Cup meant to you.
"I know how much this meant to you.
"It's hard for me to celebrate because I know
you're in so much pain."
And, I mean, talk about selfless right?
I just looked at her and I said,
"Aya, please go celebrate with your teammates.
"This may only happen once in a lifetime,
and you just won the World Cup. Go enjoy it."
(cheering)
- I don't display it. Usually everyone displays theirs.
- It still brings me the happiness that I felt back then.
- When I look at it I think, "We really did become world champions."
- For me, this represents...
my teammates from back then...
those of us who fought hard together.
It's a testimony of our bond.
(dramatic music)