Trinity Rodman Scored USWNT’s First Goal Of The Paris Olympics, Winning 3-0 Against Zambia

The United States Women’s Soccer Team played its first game of the Paris Olympics on Thursday. The team secured a 3-0 victory over Zambia under coach Emma Hayes, who was hired in May.

Trinity Rodman scored the competition’s first goal 17 minutes into the game. The 22-year-old later called her scoring technique the “Trin Spin.”

“That was just an instinctual thing because I haven’t really trained that, “ she said, according to ABC News . “But it worked out perfectly. “

“ I think in that situation I knew that if I took a touch in front of me, it probably would’ve put me out of the frame of the goal, “ Rodman added. “I was trying to just put her off balance, which worked, so I’m happy about that.”

The Paris Olympics could mark a new beginning for the team as they didn’t perform as well as expected in the Tokyo Games and the 2023 World Cup.

“Our connections have been so good, “ Rodman said about coordination between the attackers. “They’re improving every game … and they’re just going to keep getting better.”

Mallory Swanson followed Rodman’s goal by scoring back-to-back in the first half. She scored two goals in just 66 seconds — the fastest by a single player in a major tournament, according to Stats Perform’s North American soccer data’s X, formerly Twitter, account, OptaJack .

“I’ve dreamed of this moment since I was a little girl, “ Hayes said of her participation in the Games, according to Sports Illustrated . “To be leading the U.S. team out to our first Olympic Games together is something I don’t think I can put into words.”

The U.S. will play Germany on Sunday before competing against Australia on Wednesday.