This is for the time she thought she couldn’t come back. This is for the commitment she showed to a club that almost broke her beyond repair. This is for the half season she missed. This is for the other club that gave up on her. This is for the ones who doubted her. This is for herself because every time she falls, she gets up stronger. Seeing her so happy, so ready to play, so fit and good, for the first time it felt like karma really hit positively the right person. Knowing that she had a really good support network, that her mother really flied to the other side of the world during a pandemic to be by her side, that Laura Harvey really put her back on her feet and Christen was a constant help for her makes everything better now. But listening to her when she admits how actually worried she was is heartbreaking. So everything that happened yesterday was just a small part of what she deserves. Pinoe was SO CUTE with her the whole time, Alex too seemed so genuinely happy that she hugged her twice, Sammy & Rose were so sweet, and despite what we might think of them, Lindsey & Sonny’s faces when she scored were priceless! I particularly love that AD left her goal to go celebrate with Tobin, it’s pretty much rare that a GK does that! And then Christen basically lost every boundary when she just avoided the handshake in order to hug her and also lift her!
Tobin Heath always gives all that she has, unconditionally, humanly and professionally. It’s time the world starts to repay her. I want the gold medal around her neck. This is how it has to go.