The last time Rachel Corsie remembers her home country of Scotland did anything of note on the world soccer stage was when she was 9 years old. She was playing soccer then, but only at the park for fun, and the Scottish men’s national team had qualified for the FIFA World Cup. The year was 1998.
Fast forward two decades and Corsie, 29, who also plays for the Utah Royals FC, is captain of the Scotland women’s national team, which will compete in its first-ever Women’s World Cup this summer. Scotland, ranked No. 20 by FIFA, is in Group D along with England, Argentina and Japan, and will face England on Sundhay to start the tournament.