Netflix is lacing up its cleats for a new project about the 1999 U.S. Women's Soccer team. The streamer acquired the rights to Jere Longman’s book The Girls of Summer: The US Women’s Soccer Team and How It Changed The World.
The project will follow the team — which included Mia Hamm, Briana Scurry, Kristine Lilly and Julie Foudy — and their journey to the Women’s World Cup at the Rose Bowl, where Brandi Chastain of the U.S.
Women’s Soccer Team broke a 0-0 tie game to score the winning penalty kick to defeat China. Baby Driver producer Liza Chasin will produce via 3dot productions, along with Ándale Productions Hayley Stool, who optioned the book and secured players' life rights.
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