Pasadena, California (CNN) The US women's soccer team, still World Champions and emerging advocates for women's rights, returned to center stage with flair Saturday night.

On the field, the Americans dispatched Ireland 3-0 in a friendly at the Rose Bowl, their first match since winning the World Cup last month in France.

Energized fans, many of them teenage girls, greeted their returning heroes with high-pitched melodies.

Sing song chants of "To-bin," "Lind-sey," "Car-ly" and more echoed through the crowd of 37,000.

Tobin Heath, Lindsey Horan and Carly Lloyd answered the enthusiastic calls with a goal each.

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