The 17-year-old midfielder was born in Virginia and moved to the Netherlands at age 10, giving her a choice between two women's soccer powers. She picked what she called 'my homeland, my birthplace.'
The 17-year-old midfielder was born in Virginia and moved to the Netherlands at age 10, giving her a choice between two women's soccer powers. She picked what she called"my homeland, my birthplace."A few weeks before the U.S. women’s soccer team’s last games of the year, it got some good news Monday when marquee young prospect Lily Yohannes committed to the program.when her father got a job in Amsterdam.
Whether or not that was true — Jonker has long had a reputation as a big talker — it so happened that a month later, U.S. Soccerto the SheBelieves Cup squad. She didn’t have to commit at that point because the games were friendlies, and only official competitions formally tie players to national teams. Still, it was clear that the race was on.
It wasn’t enough for Yohannes to commit at the time, though. When Hayes picked her Olympic team, which would have required a formal commitment, she announced that Yohannes “wasn’t ready to make that decision, and I fully support it.” But there was a sense that something would have to happen soon, because the U.S. will play the Netherlands in the Hague in its last game of the year on Dec. 3. Either Yohannes would have to commit or both teams would have to agree to not call her up.“After much consideration, I have decided to commit to represent my country, the United States,” Yohannes said in a statement on social media. “The U.S. is my homeland, my birthplace, and where my extended family resides.
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