It’s not a very exciting time to be a fan of the US women’s youth national teams. Things feel very incoherent at the moment, from lackluster performances to losing faith in the coaching system to overall not really trusting US Soccer to fix anything. But despite it all, the young players in the program persevere, and 2019’s young player of the year has been persevering for a while, competing at pretty much every level in the youth program, which includes a longer stint than usual with the U-20s because she started with them so young and getting a callup to the senior team in 2017 at just 16 years old.
Brianna Pinto is USSF’s young female player of the year
