There’s plenty that America’s next soccer star finds funny. That’s how she described the Olympics being more competitive than the Under-20 World Cup. She used the phrase when recalling her troubles enrolling in an online college course.
In this particular instance, she was talking about returning from a sprained knee ligament to train with the U.S. women’s national team for the first time in more than four months.
The U.S. takes on Chile in an exhibition match Friday at StubHub Center as part of its final preparations for the World Cup qualification tournament next month.
If the 20-year-old Pugh was part of any previous generation of players, she would have encountered greater difficultly playing her way back into shape.