Ajax midfielder Lily Yohannes became the third-youngest goalscorer ever for the U.S. Women’s National Team, slotting home in the 82nd minute in a friendly against South Korea on Tuesday night.

Yohannes has already made history just by being on the field for the match. When she entered the field, the 16-year-old became the youngest player to make an appearance for the national team since 2001, and just the eighth to make her debut before turning 17. By scoring, she followed only Kristine Lilly and Tiffany Roberts as the youngest USWNT goalscorers.

“It’s a dream come true, really,” Yohannes told TNT Sports after the USWNT won 3-0. “I played the scenario out in my head I don’t know how many times before. The support from my teammates all running up to me just made it that much more special.”

How did Yohannes score?

While a friendly cap doesn’t cap-tie a player, seeing Lily Yohannes enter the game in the 72′ was another step in the team’s ongoing post-World Cup refresh. She was given some freedom to drift off of Sam Coffey, looking to play in the wingers, which she looked comfortable doing right off the bat. At points she was also asked to navigate around the venerable Ji So-yun, a big ask for a first assignment, but an important one that demonstrated both a level of trust and a level of willingness to let Yohannes fly or fall on her own merits.

Yohannes picked “fly” by scoring her first goal, a calmly-placed shot that rolled right underneath goalkeeper Kim Jung-mi.

Yohannes has written her name into the record books, at just 16 years and 358 days old.

A DREAM DEBUT FOR LILY!!!!#USWNT x @VW pic.twitter.com/RWlOYpLSjj

— U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team (@USWNT) June 5, 2024

“Lily is a baller. From the day she came into camp, she was just making passes that you don’t see a 16-year-old make,” forward Sophia Smith said. “You don’t even see veteran players make these passes. She’s confident, she’s composed. We knew she was going to get into this game hopefully, and she came in and didn’t miss a beat.

“She looked like a natural out there, and then to get a goal on top of that is amazing and so well deserved.” — Steph Yang

Who is Lily Yohannes?

Born in Springfield, Va., Yohannes spent her early childhood playing the game along with her brothers and father in a community of fellow Ethiopian and Eritrean expats. When the family moved to the Netherlands, Yohannes played her way into the Ajax women’s academy system, eventually becoming a starter for the team this season.

She played in 20 matches this season, scoring five goals with four assists and helping Ajax reach the UEFA Women’s Champions League quarterfinals, where they fell to Emma Hayes’ Chelsea.

“She’s like the most mature 16 year old I’ve ever met,” USWNT midfielder Rose Lavelle said on Tuesday. “I feel like she’s more mature than me honestly. She’s been so impressive. I told her, ‘I will always remember my 100th cap because it was Lily’s first cap and her first goal.’

Required reading

(Photo: Brad Smith / ISI Photos / USSF / Getty Images)

Las Vegas Aces rookie Kate Martin was left chasing down the team bus on Tuesday when her teammates pulled off a friendly prank on the former Iowa basketball player. 

In a viral clip shared on social media, Martin can be seen chasing down the Aces’ bus as it pulled away with the entire team. 

“Don’t be late to the bus,” veteran A’ja Wilson captioned in a video on Instagram that showed Martin scrambling towards the moving bus with her hands in the air. 

Aces forward Emma Cannon shared an extended version of the prank on her Instagram, which showed the bus eventually stopping to let the rookie on. 

Kiah Stokes #41, Kelsey Plum #10 and Kate Martin #20 of the Las Vegas Aces smile during the game against the Indiana Fever on May 25, 2024 at Michelob ULTRA Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.  (Jeff Bottari/NBAE via Getty Images)

CAITLIN CLARK HAS ALREADY FACED IMMENSE CRITICISM AT EVERY TURN 6 MONTHS INTO 2024

“Happy Birthday!” someone can be heard shouting. Martin celebrated her 23rd birthday on Wednesday. 

Martin was selected by the Aces in the second round of the WNBA draft in April. She joins a team hoping to make another title run after winning back-to-back championships this past season. 

Kate Martin #20 of the Las Vegas Aces and Caitlin Clark #22 of the Indiana Fever look on during the game on May 25, 2024 at Michelob ULTRA Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.  (Jeff Bottari/NBAE via Getty Images)

In her last two games, which followed a win over her former teammate Caitlin Clark, Martin has scored 21 points, making 5 of 10 3-pointers. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.

Charles Barkley is getting his LinkedIn profile ready — and has been for awhile now.

Amid ongoing reports that his network might lose the rights to broadcast NBA games starting in the 2025-26 season, the TNT basketball analyst joked about possibly having to use the employment-focused social media platform, with the implication that he and his “Inside the NBA” cohosts could soon be out of a job, during a May 19 broadcast of the show.

More than two weeks later, Barkley made a similar comment Tuesday on the “Beadle & Decker” Sirius XM radio show Tuesday.

“I’m getting my LinkedIn profile together, so I might call y’all,” Barkley told cohosts Michelle Beadle and Cody Decker. “I might put you all on my resume. Is that cool?”

“Might” was the operative word, since an official announcement still hasn’t been made about what will happen with the league’s broadcasting rights when the current deal with TNT parent company Warner Bros. Discovery and ESPN parent Disney ends after next season.

Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that the league is “closing in” on a deal to broadcast its games on NBC, ESPN and Amazon, which would leave TNT out of the loop for the first time since 1989. As of Tuesday, though, Barkley said he hadn’t heard a word from his employer on whether the show on which he’s appeared since 2000 will be coming to an end next year.

“That’s the one thing that really, really bothered me the most about the TNT experience,” said Barkley, who hosts “Inside the NBA” with Shaquille O’Neal, Ernie Johnson and Kenny Smith. “Like, hey man, just tell us something. ‘Cause, you know, everybody’s got an article coming out every day about we still got a chance or we’ve lost it. I’m like, yeah man, you guys see us every week. How ‘bout picking up the phone, saying ‘Hey, we still negotiating’ or ‘you know what, we’ve lost it.’

“Just truth us. Cause the one thing that really sucks, we gotta do this next year no matter what.”

Barkley has been making the same point for weeks. On May 23, he made no attempt to conceal his anger during an appearance on “The Dan Patrick Show,” telling Patrick that “morale sucks, plain and simple” among those at “Inside the NBA” and referring to his employers at TNT as “clowns” and “fools.”

Barkley’s discussion with Patrick came a day after TNT announced a deal with ESPN to broadcast a number of College Football Playoff games starting with the 2024 season.

“You know, these people I work with, they screwed this thing up, clearly, and we don’t have zero idea what’s going to happen,” Barkley said. “I don’t feel good, I’m not going to lie, especially when they came out yesterday and said we bought college football. I was like, well damn, they could’ve used that money to buy the NBA.”

Barkley added: “We’re just sitting back waiting on these people to figure out what they’re going to do.”

On an episode of the “SI Media with Jimmy Traina” podcast a week later, Barkley expressed similar frustrations about being left in the dark about the future of his show.

“Just say, ‘Hey, guys, we’re in the middle of negotiations. It’s 50-50.’ Just say something,” Barkley said. “I mean, we have not discussed it. And not even just for me. The people who work there. They’re the ones on pins and needles. Just say something to let the people be able to breathe a little bit. I can’t imagine having a family and bills, because realistically, you probably gotta start looking for another job.”

He added: “Just call me and say, ‘Hey, you know what? It’s going good,’ ‘It’s not going good.’ … I’d feel better about that than not” hearing anything.

Barkley reiterated to Beadle and Decker that calling him would be the best way for anyone to break the news to him, particularly if it’s bad news.

“If they fire me in person and I lose all that money, I might snap the hell out of somebody’s neck right on the spot,” he said, laughing. “It’s probably best they call me from a distance.”