COMMERCE CITY, Colo. — It’s a Friday night, about 18 hours before the self-proclaimed “greatest team you’ve never heard of” plays its first game on home soil in the United States, nearly two decades after the program’s modern era began.
In a corner meeting room of a suburban Denver Marriott, easels are holding up TV-sized notepads, the pages presumably ready to have any number of inspirational words or tactical diagrams scribbled onto them to discuss the next day’s game. Next to them is a projector screen set up to review game film.
Watching in anticipation from the cushioned conference chairs are the 18 players in training camp for the U.S. deaf women’s national team, or USDWNT, a program that has won every competition it has entered since 2005: four Deaflympics and three World Deaf Football Championships, amassing a 37-0-1 record heading into the historic friendly against Australia at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park on June 1.
This friendly would be nationally televised (a first), and part of a…
