Megan Rapinoe is aware of the elephant in the room.
She turns 37 soon and she has started only one game for OL Reign this season in the National Women's Soccer League season due to injuries. Still, U.S. women's national team head coach Vlatko Andonovski selected her for the 23-player roster for the upcoming World Cup qualifying tournament, which starts July 4, one day before her birthday.
Rapinoe -- both she and Andonovski say -- will play a very different role from the one that the world is accustomed to seeing her in.