AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Andi Sullivan’s dream of playing in the World Cup took hold at RFK Stadium. It was 2003. She was 7. The fourth edition of the tournament had come to Washington.
Sullivan and her soccer-immersed family from Lorton attended. She was hooked.
“I can picture the T-shirt I have from going to those games,” Sullivan said this week. In the stands, watching the U.S. women’s national team and several other countries play group-stage matches over a week’s span, she remembered thinking, “This is what I want to do.”
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