NEW YORK — U.S. women’s national team defender Tierna Davidson believes the squad’s “potential is limitless” after overcoming an unconventional year to win Olympic gold in Paris earlier this month, the group’s first major international title since winning the 2019 Women’s World Cup.
The USWNT beat Brazil 1-0 to win their fifth Olympic gold medal, marking the successful end of a redemption tour that started a year earlier with their earliest ever exit at the World Cup. The team then underwent a major squad overhaul, resulting in 10 players who were not at last year’s World Cup cracking the 22 person roster for the Olympics, Davidson included. The biggest change, though, was welcoming new head coach Emma Hayes in late May after she wrapped up her 12 year stay at Chelsea, giving her just four games to work with the USWNT before the Olympics began.
The rapid changes caused some uncertainty amongst the group, but Davidson lauded both Hayes’ strategy and the squad’s resilience for creating the foundation for their gold medal triumph.
“We all knew that she is a great coach,” Davidson said on Thursday at a Raising Cane’s in Manhattan, where she was partaking in sponsorship activities days after the gold medal…
