Defender · #77 · 23 yrs
Anatoliy Trubin’s mother does not watch football but she checks the results. Some time after Benfica’s win over Real Madrid, there it was. Trubin 90+8. “She was thinking maybe she was being stupid or something,” Trubin tells Sky Sports. “It was a funny moment.”
As Emma Hayes wrapped up her cross-country NWSL road trip, the United States women’s national team coach made it clear the journey was about far more than tactics or roster decisions. Somewhere between fan meet-and-greets, a visit to Disneyland, local food discoveries and the ribbon-cutting ceremony for U.S. Soccer’s new national training center, there is a deeper reason she set out on an unusually public and transparent scouting trip. “You know, menopause changes a lot,” Hayes said before Gotha
