Petite Meghan Klingenberg plays big for the U.S. at World Cup

Posted Jun 26, 2015
The small room is packed with nearly two dozen reporters when Meghan Klingenberg walks in and takes a seat behind a long white folding table. "Hi everybody!" she says cheerfully. That's pretty much how Klingenberg says everything — cheerfully, often punctuated by a laugh. If Hope Solo is the dark cloud of U.S. soccer, Klingenberg is its pixie-sized ray of sunshine. And on Wednesday she was shining. (Los Angeles Times)

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