Growing up, Red Stars goalie Alyssa Naeher dreamed of enjoying skilled basketball. Every evening prior to she went to mattress, the longer term two-time World Cup champion would pray to make it within the WNBA. “If I’m being honest, basketball was my first love,” she stated. “I wanted to play basketball at UConn. We obviously didn’t really have a [pro women’s soccer league] of our own yet.” She scored 2,000 issues for her highschool basketball workforce in Connecticut and was once recruited by way of a couple of small faculties, however her occupation at the courtroom sooner or later started to take a again seat to her occupation at the pitch. It appears to be like to be panning out.