United States forward Jaedyn Shaw has said she has struggled to deal with expectations since joining North Carolina Courage in January.
Shaw left San Diego Wave after a successful three-year stint during which she won the NWSL Shield and NWSL Challenge Cup, and was named to the NWSL Best XI in 2023.
However, she has had a slow start to life in North Carolina and is yet to score in her three starts for the club. The Courage are winless this season and have scored only twice in three games.
“I think, at least, recently I’ve struggled a little bit with just the expectation of being traded into a new environment,” she said in an interview with Futbol W.
“And now it’s an environment where it suits you and you suit it and you’re going to be impactful and it’s going to be great and all this stuff. And when it’s not, it’s just like ‘whoa, what happened?’
“And I think for me, I think it’s allowed me to kind of take a step back and be like ‘okay well it’s good people believe in you,’ that’s a way to take it. And then also just nothing has really changed … I mean, you’ve changed teams, but it’s also like you are still allowed to make mistakes and you’re still allowed to grow and be the same person that you were before. It’s not a complete identity change.
“So I think…
