New York City will honor the U.S. women's national soccer team with a ticker-tape parade for its FIFA World Cup victory. The parade will take place Friday, at 11 a.m., at the Canyon of Heroes, a stretch of lower Manhattan where victorious sports teams celebrated in the past, according to Time.
The announcement comes on the heels of Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer's public request for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to honor the team of women with a formal ticker-tape parade, which has not happened since the New York Giants won the Super Bowl in 2012.
Even though the women's soccer team is a national team and not a local one, the outcry to honor the players with a parade has been impassioned. Brewer's request mentions that New York has never thrown a parade for a women's team.
The celebration will conclude with a program at City Hall to honor the team that defeated Japan 5-2 Sunday to win the World Cup.
The events have been known as ticker-tape parades because people in tall office buildings would shower those being celebrated with ticker tape, which were long and thin pieces of paper that had stock prices printed on them. Ticker tape has since been replaced by paper confetti, according to the Associated Press.
