Washington Post · Jul 16, 2024
As USWNT’s youth movement arrives, so does Croix Bethune
Croix Bethune talks with Twila Kilgore, an assistant coach for the USWNT, on Saturday. (Brad Smith/ISI Photos/Getty Images for U.S. Soccer Federation)Croix Bethune needed less than 90 seconds to announce her arrival to the U.S. national team.
The 23-year-old Washington Spirit midfielder, an alternate on Coach Emma Hayes’s roster for the Paris Olympics, made her senior international debut in the 81st minute of Saturday’s 1-0 win over Mexico, the first of two send-off games.