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You will want to check out the goal Crystal Dunn scored

Published Mar. 3, 2016 9:18 p.m. ET

Ryan Rosenblatt

Crystal Dunn didn't make the United States World Cup team last year, and she has spent all of her time since scoring goal after goal to make sure she's on every team for every major tournament going forward.

First, she won the NWSL Golden Boot and league MVP last season. Then, last month, she scored a national team record-tying five goals in a single match. But the goal she scored against England in the SheBelieves Cup opener on Thursday may have topped all of that.

So what's the best part of that? Is it the first touch? The turn? The explosion? How quickly she replaced her leg with a rocket launcher and blasted the ball into the top corner?

Probably the last part.

We still don't know what position she'll play at the Olympics this summer, but you can bet she'll be there. If 2015 was The Year of Carli Lloyd, Dunn looks poised to make 2016 hers.

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