Entering Friday, the last time we saw the U.S. women's national team in an actual match, it was beating Japan 3–1 to cap off a SheBelieves Cup sweep after staging a silent pregame protest against U.S. Soccer by wearing its warm-ups inside out, hiding the USSF crest.
That was back on March 11—or 261 days ago. When the U.S. players took the field at Rat Verlegh Stadion to take on the Netherlands in a road friendly Friday, carrying the message that Black Lives Matter, it represented the longest gap between USWNT matches in 30 years, per TruMedia's Paul Carr.