BEAVERTON, Ore. – “I’ve wanted to be in the NWSL these last two seasons.”
It’s a month before Caitlin Foord will make her Portland Thorns FC debut. She’s been back with the team for nearly four weeks, though, completing the last phases of a recovery that’s delayed her North American return. The pop in January, during her last Australian W-League game of the season, had felt too familiar. She knew she’d be out for a while.
“I knew straight away,” the 23-year-old attacker says about the lisfranc injury that would cost her six months.