The Great Horan: World Edition (Lindsey Horan interview)

Lindsey Horan talks to She Kicks before a first World Cup that took a long time to arrive, having missed the 2012 Under-20 finals to play for Paris Saint-Germain and the 2015 seniors through injury. She describes finding out she had made the squad mid-interview, seeing Jill Ellis’s name on her phone and calling her mother first. On her role she resists the framing that she must create or score, saying she gives what each game needs. She is frank about returning from France in 2016 and having to rebuild physically for the demands of the NWSL and the national team. Sweden’s presence in the group means facing close friends Caroline Seger and Kosovare Asllani. Asked how she would settle a drawn final, she chooses run-up penalties from the halfway line.