Thousand Ox, California. – Angel City FC Sporting Director Mark Parsons said that Forward Elisa Thompson has set a standard in the early weeks of the 2025 National Women’s Football League season.
Parsons told ESPN in the team’s new training facility on Thursday, “In the first three matches, Elisa has been the best player in the League.”
Thompson scored two of the team’s first three matches, scoring a goal behind the league leaders. His 8th-minute tally helped Angel City win 2–1 against the Seattle reign FC on Sunday. Thompson defeated two defenders with his movements and fired a bullet in the upper corner.
In 2024, 20 -year -old Thompson scored five goals and seven assistance. She missed the United States Olympic roster, but went to a scoring run in half of the 2024 NWSL season and withdrew the USWNT. Is 20 years old
In October in 3–1 win over Iceland, he scored his first senior international goal on his return to USWNT.
“I know he is committed to looking for the next level in his game,” USWNT head coach Emma Hes said about Thompson after that match, and I think you see how danger and dangerous he is. “
Thompson has been a part of every USWNT training camp since then and has been on a roster which will be taken to Brazil at the Sophie Stadium in California on Saturday before facing the same protest in San Jose.
Angel City Franchise is unbeaten for the first time in the history of the franchise, thanks to a new, young core of players broadly. Interim head coach Sam Lit started one of the youngest lineups in NWSL history-six players were 23 years or less-Draw with San Diego Wave FC in the inauguration-week of Team.
Thompson is one of the anchors of that youth movement, with his sister, Gisselle. Thompson 2023 NWSL Draft was the number 1 pick as an 18-year-year-year-old that was finishing high school. She played for USWNT in the World Cup at the end of that year.
Eighteen-year-old Kennedy has been the team’s playmaker at the Fuller Midfield, while 22-year-old forward relay Tierran started all three matches as Angel City Striker after joining the team in the presiden as a non-female inventory.
Tieren scored a game winning a game against Seattle on Sunday, which was the first professional Tally.
With its target on Sunday, Thompson’s 11 regular season targets are already tied to the second in the youth history of Angel City.
Parsons said of the youth group of players, “They have to learn a lot to do, but Sam and the team have done a tremendous job on having a clear identity.” “I am confident that when you have this, individuals have a chance to perform. And I think we have had great personal performances so far. It’s fun.”
