Women's World Cup is sweetest title for Chalupny - STLtoday.com
Chalupny was home in St. Louis for a brief stop in a whirlwind week that saw the U. S. team win the championship on Sunday, fly from Vancouver to Los Angeles on Monday, have a victory rally there on Tuesday and will reconvene in New York on Friday... That kind of experience usually is reserved for champions of New York pro sports teams, world leaders like Nelson Mandela or Pope John Paul II, and astronauts – “Pretty good company,” Chalupny said – and it’s quite a reward for Chalupny, who was... It was her experience that got Chalupny back in the door, but after years of playing at the club level, she had a lot of work to do to get back up to the speed of the international game. She began practicing with the team in December, and by spring it was clear she had regained a spot on the team. “If I think back to a year ago,” she said, “I had no sense that it was even possible to get back on the team, that it was even a possibility at all. Chalupny was a reserve on the backline, which turned out to be the strength of the team. Though it was thought that as many as seven games played in three weeks on artificial turf in a warm Canadian summer would create a need to rotate players, the U. S. team’s backline proved. Source: www.stltoday.com
