World Cup Women

September, 1990

I Magine the super Bowl, the World Series and the N.C.A.A. finals rolled into a ball. Bounce the ball across five continents and onto nearly a billion TV screens. That's soccer's World Cup--the championship of a game the rest of the world considers "real" football. To salute this year's tourney, we jetted our own team--11 international beauties--to Italy, the 1990 cup's host country. At Castello di Montegufoni, a Tuscan castle once frequented by a Pope, they sun-bathed, partied, talked...

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