Rose Lavelle hasn’t set foot on a pitch in uniform for almost eight months and it might be getting to her. “It’s so hard not to be jealous of. Everybody’s out there getting to play and do what they love while I’m at home sitting on my couch still, not being able to do that,” she said on a phone call on Tuesday.



Among fans of the U.S. women’s national team, the name on everyone’s lips in 2017 was Rose Lavelle. The hype seemed inversely proportional to her relatively small stature—her light, 5’4” frame bursting with technical talent, deceptive speed on and off the ball, and great field vision. She seemed to hold up to even the most optimistic expectations in her debut against England during the USSF’s annual SheBelieves tournament in March. She showed incredible promise at the club level with the Boston Breakers, enough for fans of that perennially-last place team to hope for some kind of revitalization. And...