Zoey Deutch has been cast to star in “The 99’ers,” Netflix’s upcoming sports biopic about the United States soccer team’s victory in the 1999 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
Deutch will play Marla Messing, the groundbreaking executive who was president and CEO of the committee that organized the Women’s World Cup. Messing is one of the key people behind the scenes who set the foundations for modern American soccer in the 1990s, also serving on the committee for the 1994 FIFA Men’s World Cup and as a founding executive of Major League Soccer.
The 1999 Women’s World Cup set attendance and viewership records for soccer in the United States,…
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