This time last year, the U.S. women’s national soccer team was in disarray.
In fact, it was July of last year when Megan Rapinoe, undoubtedly the glue of the roster for close to a decade, announced her intent to retire from professional soccer.I t felt like the piling on of a rapildly-growing series of unfortunate events.
Coming off a FIFA World Cup crown in 2019, things started to unravel as the departures of impact players and an iconic coach in Jill Ellis, who led Rapinoe and the Americans to World Cup glory, was followed by short-lived coaching stints, fresh faces asked to take the reins and uncharacteristic
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