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Last Week, a U.S. Women’s Football Team Left for Honduras—Now They Can’t Get Home

If you need a reminder of how quickly things have changed as the coronavirus has spread across the globe, Stephanie Balochko can tell you a story.

Last Wednesday morning, March 11, before the NBA suspended its season or the United States implemented travel restrictions from Europe, and several days before bars and restaurants across America began to close, Balochko and more than 50 players and coaches on an all-star football team boarded flights bound for Tegucigalpa, Honduras. They were traveling to compete in the Americas Women’s Bowl, an international football tournament between teams from the U.