If we’re focusing on just the girls, then I see Kara as goalie, Lena as a forward with Alex defending (also team captain). Sam is a sweeper. Maggie is a defender for a travel team.
Lena starts off as a forward for Metropolis, and the first time she meets Kara is when they collide on the goal line of a highly anticipated Metropolis vs National City game.
Lena’s score is maybe not entirely legal, but the refs don’t catch it, and Kara is forever bitter about the fact it costs them the match. She gripes ad nauseum about it to her team (and swears to herself that her fixation has nothing to do with the smug, flirtatious wink Lena gives her when the ref calls in her favor).
But then Lena is traded to National City for reasons unknown, and no one can tell she’s actually happy about the move, since she’s got a game face so strong she even wears it in practice. She’s focused entirely on her skills and the scrimmage and she even stays late to drill when the others all go for drinks.
Kara hangs back as well, when she sees that Lena isn’t with them. She waves the others on, and backtracks to the field to watch Lena. After a while, Lena notices she has an audience, and despite a few initial barbs traded, Lena reveals why she’s so focused… she has her eye on the world cup, which was pretty much guaranteed with Metropolis but now she has only six games to turn National City around to edge her old team out to and rep the US.
Her determination is infectious, and soon the entire team gets on board (especially if it means they get to finally cream their rivals in Metropolis).
By the time National City gets to the World Cup, Lena and Kara are heralded as the hottest players since Mia Hamm, and there’s a subculture of fans wondering will-they/won’t-they. Soccer’s popularity is increasing among queer viewers by an order of magnitude, and soon are out-trending men’s soccer on all social media platforms.
This year’s World Cup championship is going to be an event to behold, that’s for sure.
