If you’re a soccer fan in Houston, or if you’re a fan of women’s soccer anywhere in America, chances are you’ve heard of Jen Cooper.
Cooper has traveled to Russia and France to lend her knowledge to the broadcasts of the 2018 Men’s and 2019 Women’s World Cups, written an almanac detailing the history of the National Women’s Soccer League, and even found two missing US Women’s National Team matches that altered soccer history. However, rewind to any point of her life prior to the mid-90s and you would find a woman who not only didn’t understand soccer but didn’t even like it.