The only SEC player in Sunday's World Cup final? Netherlands' Merel van Dongen: "I was 19 when I left the Netherlands. I was working 7 hours a day in a lunch restaurant and training 2 hours a day, being exhausted at the end. Then I went to Alabama, where they had a budget for women's football that was insane. The only thing I had to do was train and play and they did everything for me -- OK, I had to make good grades in school. But it was so professional. ... I thought I knew what training hard was until I left for Alabama. ... I'm so thankful for them. One of the reasons I'm here is what I learned in the United States."