Shea Groom is an exciting young player—aggressive, mobile, good with the ball at her feet, generous with her passing, and a quality finisher. After another stellar NWSL campaign in which she often provided the sole attacking outlets for an FC Kansas City team lacking in other options, it’s getting harder and harder to deny her a chance to show her stuff at the highest level - yet forward is arguably the most stacked of any position in the global game.
Her coach, Vlatko Andonovski, made this point earlier in the summer, saying that Groom would soon be a forward on the US women’s national team, pointing to his previous prognostications about Becky Sauerbrunn as evidence to support the case.