USWNT star Tobin Heath takes her long-awaited shot at playing in England

Posted Sep 24, 2020
Tobin Heath has had pretty much everything a soccer player could ask for in seven years with the Portland Thorns. So the 32-year-old listened to another part of herself that had long been there: the part that developed during spells with France’s Paris Saint-Germain in 2013 and ’14. She quietly wanted to return to Europe some day — this time to England. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

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