The absence of USA captain Becky Sauerbrunn has been felt as the Americans navigate what’s been a rocky World Cup so far. But Lindsey Horan has embraced the pressure
United States midfielder Lindsey Horan’s second-half equalizer against the Netherlands last week in the group stage of the 2023 World Cup was a quintessential moment of a captain dragging her team out of the muck of a poor performance to salvage a draw.
Those moments are what the world sees, but the everyday duties of a captain take place away from the public eye: meeting with coaches, meeting with teammates, and – critically – serving as the conduit between them.
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