The Skinwalkers' Shield — Navajo Legend

Across the high mesas, the Skinwalkers shift and vanish, shadows dancing in the moonlight. As the Stars and Stripes took the field in the 2014 drama against Belgium, it felt as though Tim Howard possessed a supernatural speed, a shapeshifter’s grace between the posts. Sixteen saves—a record carved in stone—defying the physics of men. Behind every leap was the spirit of the Navajo wild, an ancient power shielding the American net from the inevitable.