Despite Not Making 2021 Olympics Team, Mallory Swanson Tied USWNT Legend Megan Rapinoe’s Long-Standing Record in SheBelieves Cup

With Canada and Japan defeated, USWNT is eying a clean sweep in the ongoing SheBelieves Cup. With 2-0 and 1-0 wins respectively, the Women’s team is at the top. The catalyst of this amazing run is Alex Morgan or Megan Rapinoe. It is the young and high-flying star, Mallory Swanson.

She has scored all three goals for the team and taken the offense of the team to a new level. Swanson is becoming a big name and the offense will rely on her during one of the biggest events later this year. Swanson is not only taking the competition but storm, but is also breaking the records doing it.

USWNT will be playing against Mexico in a few days in their last faceoff of the SheBelieves Cup. Meanwhile, other teams are scratching their head in determining how to play and win against this Goliath of a soccer team. With stars like Swanson, they have a real shot at achieving the hare three-peat however, uncertainty is what makes soccer great. You never know when teams like Morocco perform their absolute best and defeat teams like Portugal.

Mallory Swanson tied with USWNT legend

Mallory Swanson has scored 3 goals in the last two games. These goals bring up her goal tally in the SheBelieves Cup to 7. Megan Rapinoe has been the top scorer of the tournament for a long time. Matching with Rapinoe would bring a lot of confidence to the star. Megan has also scored 7 goals in the tournament over her extensive and decorated career.

Talking about the game against Japan, Swanson said, “Honestly, I think this offseason I kind of just reevaluated my game. And I think one thing was that I wasn’t finishing easy chances all of last calendar year, so I just wanted to come into this year and just be able to finish easy chances and just put them away.”

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This performance become highly important as Swanson had been struggling in the last couple of years to maintain her spot in the team. She dropped from the squad for the 2021 Olympics. The timing of her coming back to form couldn’t have been better.

Words of appreciation from Rapinoe

While talking about how Swanson pulled herself up from a tough phase, Megan Rapinoe had kind words for the top scorer. She said, “To be honest, she’s one of the best players in the world. It’s hard to even have words. She’s just so smooth, and everything just looks easy. Obviously, she’s in a happy place and doing well on and off the field.”

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These words from one of the legends of the game will definitely inspire Mallory to do more and be consistent. The whole nation has huge expectations from a young and famous USWNT star. She will be the key for USWNT to write history. Whether they will or not, August will tell the world.