The U.S. women’s soccer team is getting some big-name players back from long absences for a two-game series against China in early June.
Tobin Heath leads the marquee, rejoining the national team for the first time since last September. The New Jersey-born creative winger has had multiple injuries over the last year and change but is finally back at full health. Since returning to the field for the NWSL’s Portland Thorns in mid-April, Heath has one goal and two assists in seven games.
(Coincidentally, the news came on Heath’s 30th birthday.)
Another major returning player is Samantha Mewis, a box-to-box midfielder whose stock skyrocketed last year.