Feature article about “Unmatched” in The Beacon

University of Portland’s student newspaper The Beacon recently published a feature article about Unmatched. Below is an excerpt:

The upcoming documentary “Unmatched: The Team That Changed the Beautiful Game” will make a bold claim: The trajectory of women’s soccer and women’s sports was forever altered by one University of Portland team. 

Conceived and directed by filmmaker and UP alum Joe Kuffner, the film tells the story of the 2005 women’s soccer team, which won a national championship and featured sports icons Megan Rapinoe and Christine Sinclair on its roster.

The project is currently being filmed, with no firm release date set, according to Kuffner. 

Kuffner describes the film’s storylines in three “buckets:” the team and its historic win, the alums it produced — including the leading goal scorer in international soccer history and a leading advocate of equal pay for the U.S. Women's National Team — and Portland, a city that has since embraced women’s soccer.