By now, we all know how the Women's World Cup played out. Despite theheartbreaking outcome, the USWNT hasn't had much time to feel down about their loss to Japan on penalty kicks.

It's been 12 years since the US was in a Women's World Cup final and this American team showed such class, pride and respect that they captured the hearts of a nation.

Last spring, Indi Armstrong Cowie performed her freestyle soccer routine for 76,000 fans during halftime at a Chelsea-Manchester United match. This 16-year-old Scot moves the soccer ball like no other girl on the planet.

Indie learned to walk chasing a soccer ball. At 10 she played on a coed team and once scored all seven goals in a 7-6 win.

Kudos to U.S. soccer legend Kristine LIlly for calling it a day while she's still got game. After 352 appearances for the national team, one of the most beloved figures in the history of women's soccer anounced she is retiring.

The 5-foot-4-inch midfielder hangs up her boots at age 39 as perhaps the game's most accomplished player and certainly one of the most successful and decorated female athletes in U.