On the latest episode of the RE-CAP Show, USWNT star Tobin Heath revealed that she underwent a second knee surgery in her quest to return to the pitch.
Heath hasn’t played since the 2022 NWSL season, when her tenure with then-OL Reign was cut short due to a knee surgery. A two-time Olympic gold medalist and World Champion, she hasn’t addressed her playing career much over the last two years.
In the latest RE-CAP Show episode, Heath revealed that she had to receive a cartilage transplant in her knee.
“I think it was public when I got my first knee surgery, which was actually just kind of a clean-out of the knee,” Heath said. “I ended up trying to rehab back for about a year and got pretty close. I thought about signing for a team. At that time I didn’t think I was there enough with the knee to be able to commit fully to a team, because the way I play football is I’m all in — like I play to be at the highest level, I play to be winning World Cups, Olympics, club championships.
“And then obviously with that first surgery not helping, I got a second pretty big surgery with my knee that then put me in the category of like, ‘Will I ever play professionally again?'”
Initially, Heath…
