The United States has become the first nation to win the FIFA Women’s World Cup football championship for the third time by thrashing Japan 5-2 Sunday, avenging its 2011 final defeat to the Nadeshiko. The Americans, the 1991 and 1999 champions, ended their 16-year Cup drought in the most emphatic manner with a hat trick by Captain Carli Lloyd.
The seven-goal thriller was the highest scoring Wome