messi football kit for kids First, the coronavirus pandemic halted the NWSL¡¯s planned start in April. When the league finally did return in June with the month-long Challenge Cup tournament, Smith missed out with a knee injury. Rather than rehab alone, the youngster decided to join her new teammates in Utah.

¡°For her to do what she did in the Challenge Cup and hang out with us the entire time doing rehab with our training staff, [it] was shocking to me because I don¡¯t know how she did it,¡± said Lindsey Horan, Smith¡¯s teammate with the Thorns and the USWNT.

¡°Being in the bubble with my team in Utah for a month, I learned a lot from them and got super close with them,¡± Smith added.

Smith¡¯s knee issue wasn’t the first time inher young career she¡¯d been struck down by an untimely injury, as she was forced out of the College Cup her freshman year at Stanford due to an ankle problem.

Through adversity early in her career, Smith has embraced an assuredphilosophy.

¡°Trust the process,¡± Smith said, ¡°because if I’m cheap football shirts for kids giving everything I have, if I’m doing what I need to do when no one’s looking, everything will fall into place.