Daily News | In Lynn Williams, Gotham FC signed not just a needed scorer, but a needed winner
for her country. She’s also a great high-presser defensively, which new Gotham manager Juan Carlos Amorós values. And she can play as a winger or centrally, depending on the tactics.
That’s not good enough for any team. It’s especially not good enough for the only pro women’s soccer team in the New York area, a place just fine with ignoring losers not called the Yankees or Giants. Gotham has felt the brunt of that plenty. Last year’s average attendance of 4,415 fans per game at Red Bull Arena was the highest in team history, butGotham needs to win games. Williams is a winner. It’s rarely ever that simple, but right now, it’s a big help.
She cited the North Carolina powerhouse where she won many of her titles, playing with other serial winners including Jessica McDonald and Heather O’Reilly. The program’s generational transition since the Olympics has led to some rocky days and nights. But in the 2022 season finale, the last game Williams missed due to her injury, there was a little of the old gumption in a comeback win over Germany. And in the first game of 2023, Williams punctuated her return to action with a goal.
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