The U.S. women's national team held its first Women's World Cup practice in France on Saturday ahead of Tuesday's opening match against Thailand.
“Watching all these games that are going on right now, that just gets me more excited,” said midfielder Lindsey Horan, one of 11 World Cup debutantes on the U.S. roster.
“We’ve been counting down to our first game,” she said. “Until then, this is all just everything else going on. We can appreciate it and we can enjoy it. But it’s just hyper-focused on Game 1.”For Horan, who skipped college to sign a six-figure club deal with Paris Saint-Germain out of high school, this World Cup marks a homecoming of sorts.
“I had to grow up really quickly. Knowing how to live in another country and do things for myself,” she said. Horan scored 46 goals in 58 games with PSG before returning to the U.S. in 2016 to play for the NWSL’s Portland Thorns. However, she retained enough of her French to serve as a part-time interpreter for her teammates.After the opener in Reims, the U.S. will leave Wednesday for Paris. Horan said she can’t wait for that.
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