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NYC Is Throwing a Parade for U.S. Women’s Soccer Team on Wednesday

TIME TO CELEBRATE

The U.S. women bested the Netherlands 2-0 on Sunday to claim soccer’s highest prize.

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The United States Women’s National Soccer Team will be welcomed back home from the World Cup with a victory parade in their honor on Wednesday in New York City. Mayor Bill de Blasio confirmed the ticker-tape celebration after the team’s 2-0 win over the Netherlands on Sunday. The festivities along Lower Manhattan’s so-called Canyon of Heroes will begin at 9:30 a.m. Parts of Broadway south of Chambers Street will close around 4 a.m. that morning and remain shut down until about noon, the New York Daily News reports.

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