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It’s no secret what Sofia Huerta has gone via to get so far. She has talked extensively in the previous few years about what she has sacrificed and the way she has tailored all through her profession to get right here. However now it’s actual. Regardless of all of the doubters, Sofia Huerta goes to her first main match with the U.S. Ladies’s Nationwide Crew, having been named to Vlatko Andonovski’s 23-player squad final week.

“It’s overwhelming. I’m actually excited… I’ve confronted lots of adversity in my profession and there have been undoubtedly instances the place I wasn’t certain if it was going to be potential for me to be named to a World Cup roster, Olympic roster. And I considered it usually you recognize? I simply wasn’t certain if it was going to be in my future and that was troublesome.”

Talking on the USWNT’s media day, Huerta was in good spirits, however was forthcoming concerning the struggles it took to be named to her first World Cup roster.