The USA will be out to lay the ghosts of 2011 to rest when it takes on Japan in Sunday's Women's World Cup final in Vancouver.
The United States women's national team will be aiming to end a four-year search for redemption when it takes on Japan in Sunday's Women's World Cup final in Vancouver.
The team's 2011 final defeat at the hands of the same opponents shocked the football world and still haunts several members of the U.S. squad, including veteran striker Abby Wambach. The 35-year-old, who could earn her 249th cap in Sunday's showpiece, revealed that the pain of that penalty shoot-out reverse in Frankfurt has driven her ever since.