Bengaluru — When Abby Wambach towered over the Brazilian defence to head home a desperately late equaliser at the 2011 World Cup, it set a US side struggling to emerge from the shadow of its illustrious predecessors on a path to renewed glory.  

Wambach’s 122nd-minute header in the quarterfinals prevented the US from suffering their earliest ever World Cup exit and set them en route to their first final in 12 years...

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