Becky Sauerbrunn, captain of the U.S. Girls’s Nationwide Workforce, introduced Friday that she’s going to leave out the FIFA Girls’s Global Cup subsequent month because of a foot damage.
USWNT is competing for its 3rd consecutive Global Cup identify — a feat no males’s or ladies’s crew has completed earlier than, in line with FIFA. The event kicks off July 20 in host international locations Australia and New Zealand.
“Heartbroken is not even the part of it,” the 38-year-old defender mentioned in a commentary Friday evening. “I had was hoping and labored and was hoping some extra to make it again in time to lend a hand lead the crew at this Global Cup, however after a lot of dialogue, sadly, there is simply an excessive amount of variability in my go back to play timeline.”
The 2-time Global Cup champion has been suffering with a foot damage she sustained in April whilst enjoying for Portland Thorns FC within the Nationwide Girls’s Football League.
Along with Saurbrunn’s absence, the ladies’s crew might be enjoying with out winger Mallory Swanson, midfielder Sam Mewis and attacker Catarina Macario.
Swanson tore her patella tendon in a sport towards Eire in April. Mewis is getting better from a 2d knee surgical procedure which she had initially of the 12 months, and Macario continues to be rehabbing her ACL, which she tore in 2022.
Saurbrunn’s announcement comes simply days earlier than the crew’s trainer, Vlatko Andonovski, is anticipated to announce the 23-player Global Cup roster.
Saurbrunn needed her crew good fortune within the Global Cup, and mentioned she used to be thankful to have labored together with her teammates.
“This program has at all times been concerning the collective and I haven’t any doubt that the twenty-three avid gamers at the ultimate roster have the whole lot they want — of their ft, their heads and their hearts — to deliver our 5th trophy house,” she mentioned.
USWNT faces Vietnam in in its opening sport on July 21 in Auckland.
Saurbrunn has made 216 appearances for the USWNT. She may well be changed by way of each Alana Cook dinner and Naomi Girma, either one of whom are making their Global Cup debuts.
