“First -class” Rodman shows why he’s another superstar USWNT

Inglewood, California – Trinity Rodman waited 238 days to play for United States The female national team again after winning the Olympic gold medal, and on Saturday needed exactly five minutes to remind the world why the new SuperStar USWNT is. She threw herself back then BrazilDefense and skillfully completed her shot with the outer side of the right leg to put the Americans prematurely forward.

“Trin, it’s the world’s level,” said Emma Hayes, head coach, after winning 2-0 of her team over Brazil at the Sofi stadium.

Rodman’s return to uswt gave the Olympic champions a shot of energy in and off the field. She is a new team star, one has appeared as a result of a recent retirement of some of the best players and the greatest personalities who have ever wore an American ridge. The crowd of more than 32,000 fans confirmed so much before the match with prosperous health for Rodman and colleagues from the hometown forward Alyssa Thompsonwho provided the ball through the opening goal.

In the field, Rodman is increasingly the central point of the United States team, which finds this generation transition with the waves of new, less experienced players. Even at the age of 22, Rodman is one of the most established players in the group.

“It brings enormous energy in and off the field and it is incredible that it is just feeding,” said teammate USnt Ally Sennorwhich began in role 10 on Saturday. “Every tool that goes to, every run that does, really adds to the game and forces you to bring you the high energy.”

Many of the new players tested Hayes held their own but with so many veterans – from the injured defenders Nomi size and Davidson’s offerto another two -thirds of a self -proclaimed “triple espresso” Sophia Wilson and Mallory swansonwho are on vacation – Rodman also provides USnt’s feeling of stability. It stretches the lines and leaves the defenders spinning in circles, as well as Brazil during the opening minutes of Saturday’s match.

If everything else fails for USWT, Rodman will still do something special, whether scoring, as on Saturday, or get out of pressure with his famous movement “Trin Spin”.

Saturday was already Rodman’s 47. She is already an Olympic gold medalist and scored three goals at last year’s games and has a world cup under the belt. Although he is not yet a vocal team leader, it is a change in a game that clearly improves USnt.

“My leadership comes from the way I play and how aggressive I am (I am), but also only from the energy I provide,” Rodman said on Saturday. “I think I’m trying to put myself in this team that you’ll lock at the right moment, but you can also have fun and be a person at different moments.”

Rodman showed that mankind during its celebration of the targets on Saturday, when briefly pretending to injure the back, which sent nothing to the unsuspecting Hayese into a short panic, the coach said after the match. Rodman laughed at as a funny celebration, and Hayes said she was happy that her star had seen ahead in the camp and “smiling from ear to ear”.

Rodman played only 60 minutes on Saturday, while still driving back pain, and during the match it was hints when she gently held the right side or took a few seconds after a hard challenge from the Brazilian defender to return to her feet. Overall, Rodman did not look like a wounded player returning to the team; She did exactly what is known. Yes, she scored, and was a constant source of industry up and down the right side, attacked Brazilia’s sometimes incorrect three back defense while watching back to help clean the ball defensively whenever the USWT opponent up pressure.

“The goal itself, yeah, obviously it’s a big time,” Captain USWT said Lindsey Heapswho scored another goal of the team from the crime in the middle of the second half. “But I think (Rodman’s) presence and I just have it in the field – it’s a calming factor.”

Hayes repeated this week that she is still experimenting with individual players to give them opportunities and find out how they perform the highest competition. The process comes with some growing pains such as the loss of February Japan on Shebelieves cup. There were a lot of positives on the way – including the return Catarina Macario From her own injury and reviving twenty -year -old Thompson to her best form. Thompson was electric on Saturday in the first half when she cut off from the left wing to defeat the Brazilian defender on dribling.

The key to everything, Hayes said, is a balance. It integrates new and young players into the team along with veterans and tries to ensure that it does not set anyone to fail. Hayes got the formula again on Saturday when USWN jumped on Brazil early. Within 90 minutes, Americans created 2.72 expected targets from their efforts in Brazil 1.41, for American football, which is the measurement of the quality of the chances they created.

“I think you see that this less experienced team is growing up,” Hayes said after Saturday’s victory, and Rodman is part of this maturation process. Saturday served as another confirmation that it is another big thing for USnt.