From the book "The Champion Within, Training Soccer Champions, by Lauren Gregg with Tim Nash, Oct 1999, Chapter II, 1991: American Women Set Standard...US WNT reviews their performance in the 1991 World Cup...page 164, item 4 reads,

" We (US WNT) needed to be more sophisticated. We didn't know how to draw a foul. In fact, we didn't know how to get calls even when we were fouled. We would often fight to not fall over. That was a by-product of the culture we had created---don't complain;stay on your feet..."