USWNT’s Trinity Rodman reveals chronic nature of her injuries: ‘I don’t think my back will ever be 100%’

The national team star Trinity Rodman of the American ladies said that the back issues that have followed her for several years will probably continue to exist for the rest of her career, saying that she does not think it will ever be “100 percent”.

Rodman started her first match of 2025 on Friday in the 2-0 victory of the Washington Spirit at Bay FC, although it came off the field after a long period. The back injuries she has treated since her Rookie season in the Spirit in 2021 last September last September and kept her outside for almost a month, although she returned for the play -off run of the spirit that ended in a defeat of the Orlando Pride in the November NWSL championship. Spirit -head coach Jonathan Giraldez chose not to risk Rodman for the NWSL Challenge Cup earlier this month, but so far has played each of the three regular season matches of the team and took the time on Friday to discuss the chronic character of the injury.

“To be honest, I don’t think my back will ever be 100 percent,” she told reporters, per pro football wire. “It’s not one specific thing, it’s just the way my back is structured. And it is more so management than as a harsh solution. So I think we have managed it very well, and I am happy with the progression we have had. But for me I don’t think my back will ever be if the way it was my smoke year, what a shame is.”

The persistent backbone means that during her career, Rodman missed a considerable part of the games during her career, sometimes when the timing was not ideal. Last season’s injury came after she played a crucial role in the Gold Medal Winning Run of the USWNT at the Olympic Games and amid an NWSL season in which it was nominated for the MVP prize.

“It is difficult for me, from such a good season and the Olympic Games and then in an injury, and now try to find my place again, and find my role, and find my rhythm,” Rodman continued. “I think having such a slope of momentum and going and going and getting injured, it is as if I start again? Because you can’t just get back in it. So for me that is the mental struggle to be, I can’t be the three unit that I now returned of injury. So I just try to play the role as the best in another way to build in another way” “

Rodman’s USWNT returns

Rodman will now focus her efforts on the USSWNT, which will play two games against Brazil in April while they continue to build the Women 2027 World Cup. It marks her first time at the USWNT raster since the Olympic Games, where head coach Emma Hayes chooses to offer Rodman some rest after a demanding season and country. Hayes has also played her role to help Rodman manage her back injury by consulting specialists to work with the player.

“She has been so receptive to everything I have said and even she does her best to contact me, to ask how I do it and just let me know that they work behind the scenes to help people with my back only because it is a difficult location of injury with sport, you are a bit used to use the knee,” Rodman said about Hayes on the NWSL. “It was really fun. She is very supportive and very attentive to all of us, which is fun.”

Hayes also does not necessarily intend to hurry Rodman back in the fold. The head coach has embraced the spirit of experiments with the long countdown to the World Cup and hopes to use the matches against Brazil as an opportunity to test her inexperienced team. Hayes, however, openly admitted that Rodman might not be ready for an oversized role for the upcoming friendly competitions.

“We are happy that she is back,” Hayes said last week during a press conference. “But of course, [I] Must insist on a little caution because she has had a constant complaint. I think she is on the right track, but it can be pretty easy to activate it. You can start from a position of a managed return to play too much, so I have to try to find the Sweet Spot in the camp to integrate her back into the team, but also to manage her because she has a long season ahead. “