A JuCo transfer, a National Champion, an injury-plagued rookie, a real “soccer mom”, an NWSL MVP, a player’s rights advocate, and now, finally, a World Cup team member. These are all one woman, and her name is Jessica McDonald, one of the USA’s brilliant players who has for the first time, at the age of 31 and after several years of not even being in the national picture, earned a trip to France to defend the USWNT's world title. But this competition is nothing new for Jessica: Her entire career has been one scrappy battle against the odds after another.
UNC’s remarkable Jessica McDonald has made a World Cup roster spot!
