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Houston Dash: Challenge Cup Champions

The beer is flying, the confetti angels are still sculpted on the grass and the Houston Dash are Challenge Cup champions. The first to ever do it. This collection of misfits, passed over by other teams and disregarded by the “experts”, have answered their critics in the most emphatic way possible. The same old Dash? No. A new dawn.

Soccer: NWSL Challenge Cup Final-Chicago Red Stars vs Houston Dash Jeffrey Swinger-USA TODAY Sports

It was a chaotic start to the final. Chicago were punchy right from kick off. Less than one minute in and the first chance of the game fell to Savannah McCaskill at the back post.