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USWNT Goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher Says Basketball Was Her 'first Love,' Wanted To Play At UConn As A Kid 

Alyssa Naeher has arrived at soccer's apex by showing up in the 2019 World Cup and 2020 Tokyo Olympics for Team USA, yet she didn't satisfy her greatest youth dreams in doing as such. The 33-year-old goalkeeper told the Just Women's Sports webcast she initially needed to play b-ball for mentor Geno Auriemma at the University of Connecticut. 토토사이트

"B-ball was my first love...That's how I figured I would manage my life," Naeher said. "I implored each day when I was a child, my folks can confirm it, of needing to make the WNBA, I needed to be an expert ball player. I needed to go to UConn." 

While b-ball didn't turn out for Naeher, soccer absolutely did. Naeher won the National Women's Soccer League's Goalkeeper of the Year grant in 2014 and has since showed up in two World Cups for Team USA. In 78 matches with the Americans, Naeher recorded 44 clean sheets. 

Naeher was especially solid against extra shots during the 2019 World Cup, her first as a starter. It didn't exactly begin that way, however, as she gathered various punishments in those circumstances while scrimmaging before the competition. Naeher's previous USWNT colleague Christen Press helped lead a psychological turnaround in Naeher that likewise helped the Americans win the World Cup. 

"I sat in the little cool-down [area] and Christen comes up and she resembles, 'We should go for a stroll," Naeher reviewed. "I go, 'OK.' She resembles, 'You need to alter your outlook. You need to simply relinquish what occurred, think ahead, it will matter not too far off and you should be more sure with yourself and accept that you will make a save and it will have an effect.'" 

Naeher carried that mentality into the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, yet a knee injury in the elimination rounds kept her from seeing it right through. The U.S. Tumbled to Canada, 1-0, after Naeher left that game in the principal half. 

Group USA at last won Olympic bronze in a 4-3 match with Australia. 

"I will be so distraught at myself in the event that someone scores since I was unable to do what I ought to ordinarily have the option to do," Naeher thought after her physical issue. "At the point when I took that objective kick, that was presumably the most exceedingly awful torment I've felt at any point ever to kick that ball. Furthermore, I resembled, 'No, that is it.'" 

Kelly O'Hara, a double cross World Cup champion and Olympic gold medalist with Team USA, has the Just Women's Sports webcast Naeher showed up on.