Daily News | For one Philadelphia sports writer, Sam Coffey’s USWNT debut hits home
When my sister was 10 or 11 years old, she turned the basement of our house into her own training facility. She’d spend hours down there, dribbling, doing drills, conditioning. She’d come back upstairs, drenched in sweat.
She scribbled “U.S.W.N.T.” on one cinder block and “GO USA” on another. More than a decade later, the chalk has started to fade, but her words are still visible, a reminder of all of those thankless hours spent training. The hours that no one heard about.Playing for the national team has been my sister’s dream for as long as I’ve known her. She grew up with an Alex Morgan poster over her bed, and on Tuesday, in the first two minutes of her first international cap with the U.S.
It was a surreal moment, but not a surprising one. Sam’s reaching the national team always felt like an inevitability, given her steady progress. First, it was winning all-American for her high school club team. Then, it was winning Big Ten midfielder of the year with Penn State. Then, the NWSL and the Thorns came calling, and shortly after she was drafted, she won rookie of the month. And now she’s wearing a red, white, and blue uniform, and shooting perfect passes to her childhood idol.
I drove to a rest stop and streamed the rest of the game from my cellphone in a rental car, but she didn’t make an appearance. Then, on Monday night, I got another call. Sam would be starting in Tuesday’s game. The moment had come, and I would be ready for it.
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