Rose Lavelle was smitten when she met the ’99ers as a girl. Now she's trying to follow in their footsteps
“It’s kind of a learning curve, obviously,” Lavelle said.
Off the field, that is. On the field, the ’19ers have more than held their own. Seven players made their first World Cup appearance against Thailand and four of them — Lavelle, Mewis, Lindsey Horan and Mallory Pugh — scored. Not since the first World Cup in 1991 have that many U.S. players made their tournament debuts in the same game. Never have that many scored in one.
“When you get on the field you’re playing the same game that you’ve always been playing,” said Lavelle, who will look to build on that performance in the next U.S. game Sunday against Chile. “But I think there was more of a buzz and an excitement around this game. We’d been waiting a really long time to play.Yet the newbies are so tight that Lavelle’s goal moved Pugh, her roommate and NWSL teammate, to tears on the bench.
“We obviously have had such great examples of World Cup teams in the past,” said Mewis, 26. “We have a lot more ahead of us to, hopefully, continue to have more exciting moments. It’s been great so far.”If making a World Cup team was a dream for a 9-year-old Lavelle, just two years ago the road there had become a nightmare.
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