The victorious U.S. women’s soccer team may soon score again with a ticker-tape parade down Broadway.
City officials said Monday that they’re considering tossing the celebration for the championship squad — which would be a first for a female sports team.
“The Mayor’s Office congratulates the US Women’s World Cup Championship team on its tremendous achievement, and is currently exploring logistics and talking with the team and other partners about a possible ticker-tape parade,” said City Hall spokeswoman Karen Hinton.
City officials said the idea of holding a parade was lobbed shortly after the soccer team’s decisive 5-2 victory over Japan in Sunday’s World Cup finals.
But the notion got an additional boost from other officials throughout the day Monday, including from Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer.
“New York City has a strong history of honoring sports achievements in the Canyon of Heroes, but has never held a parade to honor a women’s team,” she wrote to Mayor de Blasio.
The Alliance for Downtown New York has documented 205 ticker-tape parades since 1886, but counted just five since 1999 — all of them for the baseball Yankees or football Giants.
The Women’s World Cup champs are set to join a celebratory public rally near the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press.