You'd think some countries would pay a full-ride tuition to anyone that could get a goalkeeper job on an NCAA Division 1 program. they'd get better competition and better coaching than all but, as you say, the US and European women's club scene.
aren't there a ton of players in this WWC who were poached from NCAA Women's soccer programs, for having some ethnic heritage back in the country? The story about the Jamaican keeper was amusing just for the Tropic Thunder, "What do you mean, 'you people'?" angle, but I seem to recall a bunch of other players too.