Are You Passionate About Soccer?

"I wanted to be with my mom, and I didn't see her very much growing up," she says. "Soccer was such a wonderful outlet for me to escape from any sort of like feelings that I had about being super sad." The national team is one of the only ways to make a viable living playing soccer,. She adds: "You have this unbelievable platform, but at the same time, it's scary to speak out"