I needed to pause to think about what had simply occurred at Wembley Stadium on Saturday.
Right here was Casey Krueger: 34 years outdated, fullback, mom, veteran of a number of knee and ankle accidents, seven days faraway from going the total 90 minutes within the Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League Championship, and some days faraway from a transatlantic flight. Right here was this participant, with all of these parts within the background, going one other full-90 towards England for the U.S. girls’s nationwide workforce, and enjoying spectacularly.
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