U.S. women’s national team forward Jaedyn Shaw in the team’s second fall friendly against Iceland. (Photo Credit: Casey Gower | Imagn Images)
Nineteen-year-old Jaedyn Shaw reminded Americans what they had missed when she returned to the U.S. women’s national team during the October international break. After being sidelined this summer at the Olympics by an untimely leg injury, Shaw showed off footwork and an incomparable control over the past week that had U.S. head coach Emma Hayes heaping on praise. Shaw’s performances also reiterated her promise as perhaps just the threat the United States needs as a forward or an attacking midfielder.
Filling a role typically reserved on the USWNT for the likes of veterans including Lindsey Horan and Rose Lavelle as the No. 10, Shaw showed off her touch and tenacity when she netted a go-ahead goal in the first of two exhibition matches against Iceland off the bench. She then started the second and served as the only returning starter in the team’s closing win over Argentina on…
