Alyssa Naeher has done things no other goalkeeper in U.S. Soccer history has done.
She’s won two World Cups, posted shutouts in more than 62% of her starts and converted penalty kicks in elimination games at the World Cup, CONCACAF Gold Cup and SheBelieves Cup final.
You can put Hope Solo and Briana Scurry’s career stats together and they don’t match that.
Yet one big gap still remains in that résumé because, for all she’s accomplished, Naeher never has won an Olympic gold medal. She’ll take a shot at changing that beginning Thursday, the day before the Paris Games officially open, when the U.