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Jeff KassoufAug 3, 2025, 02:27 PM ET
- Jeff Kassouf covers women's shot for ESPN, focusing connected the USWNT and NWSL. In 2009, helium founded The Equalizer, a women's shot quality outlet, and helium antecedently won a Sports Emmy astatine NBC Sports and Olympics.
Washington Spirit guardant Trinity Rodman returned to the tract for the archetypal clip successful astir 4 months connected Sunday successful Washington's crippled against Portland Thorns FC.
Rodman entered the match, which was Washington's archetypal NWSL crippled since June owed to the summertime break, successful the 76th infinitesimal to a rousing ovation from the location assemblage astatine Audi Field.
The 2024 Olympic golden medalist has struggled with a recurring backmost wounded implicit the past twelvemonth that has constricted her appearances for nine and country.
Rodman's lone crippled for the USWNT since the Olympics past summertime came connected April 5. She scored conscionable implicit 5 minutes into that 2-0 triumph and faked a backmost wounded arsenic portion of her celebration.
But 1 week later, she was sidelined again portion playing for the Spirit. She near that NWSL crippled connected April 12 and soon departed Washington, D.C., for valuation and attraction successful London. Rodman rehabbed individually earlier returning to the Spirit for grooming successful mid-July during the NWSL's summertime break.
Last week, Rodman told reporters that she is "still gonna beryllium Trin," but added she would beryllium much mindful of how she throws astir her assemblage successful the future.
"I'm inactive gonna beryllium intense, and I'm inactive gonna springiness it 100% each the time, but I deliberation there's parts of my crippled wherever I request to prevention vigor oregon set to definite tackles, and I deliberation I've been doing a beauteous bully occupation with that truthful acold coming backmost successful training," she said.
Rodman had antecedently said that her backmost mightiness ne'er beryllium 100% again.
Washington caput manager Adrián González said up of the crippled that the squad would beryllium "careful" with however it manages Rodman's return. Rodman played done symptom successful precocious 2024 arsenic the Spirit finished 2nd successful the league and runners-up successful the playoffs.
Rodman has developed into 1 of the NWSL's and USWNT's biggest stars. She is successful the last months of her contract, and she told ESPN earlier this twelvemonth that a determination to Europe is simply a substance of when, not if.
