PORTLAND, Ore. – Lindsey Horan can remember the day she fell in love with soccer; at least, the day she fell in love to the degree she is, now. It was at the point when someone distinguished the pure, innocent infatuation of her childhood self with something more passionate. It was the point when she was told a game could become a life.
“My first realization that I could turn pro was probably 14 or 15 (years old),” she recalled last month, while exchanging stories with a Portland Thorns FC teammate, Ellie Carpenter.