U.S. women's national team head coach Vlatko Andonovski has said he is "confident" that Stanford prodigy Catarina Macario will be eligible to play for the USWNT by the time the Tokyo Olympics take place next summer.
Macario was born in Brazil and moved to the U.S. at age 12 before going on to become a star at Stanford University. Now 21, Macario is considered a can't-miss talent after winning the Hermann Trophy — the highest individual honor in collegiate soccer — in back-to-back seasons.
On Friday, Macario announced on Twitter that she had secured her U.