PORTLAND, Ore. – There is always going to be a dissonance when a professional soccer team pushes one of its own for a major, year-end award. “Of course, they are doing that" goes through the minds of anybody receiving the message. What are they supposed to do?
There’s no doubt, anything ThornsFC.com says about Lindsey Horan should be taken with a grain of salt, and the standard to convince you that message is sincere needs to be a high one. But it’s an easy standard to hit in light of what Horan’s produced over the course of the NWSL’s 2018 season.