AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Follow any of the players on the U.S. women’s national team on your social media platform of choice, and you’re bound to see it: coffee, and lots of it.
The USWNT players have been asked repeatedly here during the Women’s World Cup how they spend their downtime and socialize, and the No. 1 answer by far is getting coffee. Touristy excursions like trips to Hobbiton or ferry rides to the nearby islands here in New Zealand? Not so much. This team is here to do work, and it’s a coffee culture in camp.
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“Sometimes I think it’s a sickness, but like, listen, we got to get our coffee intake,” defender Crystal Dunn said of the team’s coffee obsession. “The mornings have been really great –…
