Ahead of the Paris Games, the women’s soccer rising star talks to Vanity Fair about last year’s tournament letdown, becoming the face of a new Adidas cleat, comparisons with her NBA legend father, and playing under the political spotlight.
“Losing at the World Cup,” she says. “I hate saying that word.” For the United States women’s national team, the L-word has always been something of taboo, if not a foreign concept entirely. A juggernaut in the order of Brazil on the men’s side, the USWNT has been a serial winner, dominating women’s soccer like few teams in any sport. The US has won gold at the Olympics four out of seven times, and in nine women’s World Cup tournaments, the team has claimed the top prize in four of them.
“There's definitely pressure with it,” Rodman told me last week at an Adidas pop-up in Brooklyn, “but I think as time goes on and the more experience I have, the less it’s crippling.” After last year’s World Cup flop, Rodman believes the USWNT is under more pressure heading into the Olympics. Oddsmakers have made the US slight favorites to win gold in Paris over reigning world champion Spain, but the American hegemony over the sport is fading.
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