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When Trinity Rodman thundered in that stoppage-time winner for the Washington Spirit against the Portland Thorns in the NWSL<\/a> on Aug. 3, it was a comeback goal celebrated throughout the 16,000-strong crowd at Audi Field. A small corner of Wimbledon, south London, also rejoiced in that moment.<\/p>\n

The U.S. women\u2019s national team forward made a successful return to football after a four-month absence due to a back injury she says might never fully heal. After her volley earned the Spirit a 2-1 victory, the 23-year-old was overcome with emotion, having thought she might not get to experience that feeling again.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was just the hardest thing I\u2019ve had to go through, injury and everything,\u201d Rodman told ESPN. \u201cBeing back, and being at the home stadium with the crowd behind me, scoring a goal like that \u2014 you saw I buried that. I wasn\u2019t going to miss it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thousands of miles away at Goals Wimbledon, a soccer centre that rents out five-a-side pitches for personal use, they feel like a small but proud part of Rodman\u2019s comeback trail.<\/p>\n

At the end of June, Rodman, an Olympic champion in France last summer, was in England supporting her boyfriend, No. 6 world-ranked professional tennis player Ben Shelton, as he reached the quarter-finals of Wimbledon<\/a>. Fresh from being the face of Adidas\u2019 advertising campaign for the F50 Sparkfusion women\u2019s football boots, Rodman walked up to the Goals reception desk and asked manager Barry Horsnell if she could hire one of its (artificial turf) pitches.<\/p>\n

Horsnell didn\u2019t know who this person was at first, but sensed she was famous. Her American accent, along with the fact she had turned up with a coach \u2014 Josh Angulo, the Spirit\u2019s team chiropractor, who was accompanying her in Europe \u2014 piqued his interest.<\/p>\n

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\n Trinity Rodman signing a ball at Goals Wimbledon. (Barry Horsnell \/ Goals Wimbledon)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cI\u2019m nosy, so I\u2019ll just ask (people) questions,\u201d Horsnell tells The Athletic<\/em>. \u201cShe said she was here for the tennis, with her other half playing at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said: \u2018I really want to pretend that I know who you are, but I don\u2019t\u2019. She just laughed and was so nice about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rodman began training on pitch No. 11 \u2014 a seven-a-side field at the far end of the facility called Estadio Centenario, after the national stadium of Uruguay. As she ran through drills for an hour and a half, back in the office, Horsnell typed Rodman\u2019s name into Google and was blown away by her level of stardom. Rodman rented the pitch that day for \u00a36 (just over $8) per hour per person. It would be the last time she would have to do so.<\/p>\n

Horsnell refused to charge them on later visits but did ask one thing in return \u2014 if fans spotted Rodman training on his pitches, which sit next to a golf driving range and a motorcycle-riding school, would she be OK with posing for photographs with them? Rodman kindly agreed, and it wasn\u2019t long before locals spotted her being put through her paces and finding the top corner on repeat during shooting practice.<\/p>\n

Sisters Sophie and Emily Day train at the centre. Sophie is 13 and plays as a centre-back for Brighton & Hove Albion\u2019s academy, a 90-minute drive to the south, and Emily, 10, is in west London club Chelsea\u2019s youth pathway.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are so many good female role models for girls, and so much more opportunity now as well,\u201d their father, Richard, says, after finding out Rodman trained here. \u201cOpportunities which just didn\u2019t exist. And when you listen to the players that are coming towards the ends of their careers, the opportunities they\u2019re seeing for girls that are going into the game versus what they<\/em> had \u2013 but they\u2019ve paved the way for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The clientele of Goals Wimbledon are accustomed to celebrity visitors. Nigel James, father of England and Chelsea stars Lauren and Reece James, runs his youth academy from there, with plenty of appearances from his daughter and son over the years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a girl training with Nigel James Elite Coaching; she was doing a one-to-one session with a coach. I watched Trinity walk out and I thought: \u2018I wonder if she\u2019ll recognise her\u2019,\u201d Horsnell says. \u201cAs soon as Trinity walked out, you could just see this girl\u2019s eyes light up. She knew straight away who Trinity was, and she couldn\u2019t concentrate on her own football for the next 10 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n

But like Horsnell on her first arrival, not everybody recognised Rodman.<\/p>\n

Every few minutes, trains speed by behind the center\u2019s pitches, running back and forth from the suburbs of New Malden and Raynes Park in the direction of central London\u2019s Waterloo station or towns southwest of the city, such as Richmond.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were hundreds of people going past, and they wouldn\u2019t have realised who was training on that pitch. There were people playing on the other pitches as she walked past that wouldn\u2019t have known who she was either,\u201d Horsnell says. \u201cIt\u2019s mad, isn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n Rodman \u2013 front row, second left \u2013 watching boyfriend Shelton at Wimbledon (Mike Hewitt \/ Getty Images)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Rodman was in London as Shelton, 22, was defeated by eventual Wimbledon champion Jannik Sinner in the quarterfinals. A month before that, she had been in Paris watching as he reached the fourth round of the French Open, where he was also defeated by the eventual champion, Carlos Alcaraz.<\/p>\n

As Shelton won the Canadian Open just over a week ago<\/a>, Rodman, now back with the Spirit and building up her minutes, watched on television as her partner won his first ATP Masters 1000 title. And before the U.S. Open, which starts in New York this week, she paid a visit to the Cincinnati Masters to watch him win his opening match against Camilo Ugo Carabelli.<\/p>\n

Back in Wimbledon, they are still marvelling at the fact that Rodman trained there. Feeling inspired by her visit and England\u2019s Lionesses winning a second straight European Championship in Switzerland last month, Horsnell and his colleagues are excited about watching the center\u2019s new women\u2019s five-a-side league go from strength to strength.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven though we only met her a few times over that couple of weeks, it\u2019s mad to see her scoring that last-minute goal and feeling more emotionally connected to it than we might have otherwise been,\u201d he says. \u201cYou\u2019d be happy for anyone scoring a last-minute goal, but we know what it means to her and are happy we could help play a small part.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n Trinity Rodman celebrates after scoring a stoppage-time winner for the Spirit (Roger Wimmer \/ ISI Photos via Getty Images)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cThere was no air of arrogance, and her celebration for that goal was the same. It was so humble, she was just so happy to score it \u2014 and that is exactly how she came across. I know now how big a star she is in America and in women\u2019s football, but each day that I met her, she was just so normal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Horsnell came out of it all with a Rodman-autographed football for his 11-year-old niece.<\/p>\n

\u201cI showed her the ball and she didn\u2019t know who had signed it. Then I showed her the photo on my phone and she was like, \u2018Oh my god! That\u2019s Trinity Rodman!’\u201d<\/p>\n

Rodman will not be forgotten soon around these parts.<\/p>\n

(Top photo: Dustin Satloff \/ NWSL via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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