The U.S. Girls’s Nationwide Group will play one final pleasant sooner than touring to New Zealand to arrange for the 2023 FIFA Girls’s Global Cup, taking up Wales on Sunday, July 9 within the Global Cup Ship-Off fit, introduced by way of Visa. The fit, which would be the first-ever assembly between the US and Wales, will kick off at 1 p.m. PT / 4 p.m. ET at PayPal Park in San Jose, Calif. with the printed protection on TNT, Telemundo, Universo and Peacock. The United States heads into the fit with a 7-0-0 report in 2023 whilst scoring 17 objectives and permitting one.
Following the general whistle, fanatics in attendance are inspired to stick and be a part of the WWC Ship-Off Rite, right through which each and every participant at the roster will probably be identified previous to departing for New Zealand. The birthday party will come with pyrotechnics, in-stadium video shows and extra to rejoice the group’s approaching departure for the Global Cup.
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TWENTY-THREE STRONG FOR DOWN UNDER
On June 21, the US’s roster for the Girls’s Global Cup used to be formally introduced, unveiling the 23 avid gamers who will constitute the crest Down Beneath. The roster, which will even function the roster for the Ship-Off Fit in San Jose, options 9 avid gamers who have been participants of the 2019 FIFA Girls’s Global Cup championship squad and 14 avid gamers who have been named to their first Global Cup roster.
U.S. WOMEN’S NATIONAL TEAM ROSTER BY POSITION (CLUB; CAPS/GOALS) – 2023 FIFA WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
GOALKEEPERS (3): Aubrey Kingsbury (Washington Spirit; 1), Casey Murphy (North Carolina Braveness; 14), Alyssa Naeher (Chicago Crimson Stars; 90)
DEFENDERS (7): Alana Cook dinner (OL Reign; 24/1), Emily Fox (North Carolina Braveness; 28/1), Crystal Dunn (Portland Thorns FC; 131/24), Naomi Girma (San Diego Wave FC; 15/0), Sofia Huerta (OL Reign; 29/0), Kelley O’Hara (NJ/NY Gotham FC; 157/3), Emily Sonnett (OL Reign; 74/1)
MIDFIELDERS (7): Savannah DeMelo (Racing Louisville FC; 0/0), Julie Ertz (Angel Town FC; 118/20), Lindsey Horan (Olympique Lyon, FRA; 128/27), Rose Lavelle (OL Reign; 88/24), Kristie Mewis (NJ/NY Gotham FC; 50/7), Ashley Sanchez (Washington Spirit; 24/3), Andi Sullivan (Washington Spirit; 44/3)
FORWARDS (6): Alex Morgan (San Diego Wave FC; 206/121), Megan Rapinoe (OL Reign; 199/63), Trinity Rodman (Washington Spirit; 17/2), Sophia Smith (Portland Thorns FC; 29/12), Alyssa Thompson (Angel Town FC; 3/0), Lynn Williams (NJ/NY Gotham FC; 52/15)
BAY AREA CONNECTIONS
Sunday’s Ship-Off Fit in San Jose holds further importance for a number of of the avid gamers in this roster who’ve ties to the Bay House. Defender Naomi Girma hails from San Jose, Calif., and attended Stanford College, as did Alana Cook dinner, Kelley O’Hara, Andi Sullivan and Sophia Smith. Alex Morgan attended faculty at UC Berkeley and Sofia Huerta and Julie Ertz each attended Santa Clara College, which is solely two miles from PayPal Park. Megan Rapinoe additionally hails from Redding, Calif, which is 245 miles north of PayPal Park, however the Bay House is probably the most northern venue the US has ever performed in California.
GROUP E AWAITS AT 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
Following the fit in San Jose, the US will trip to New Zealand and face Global Cup debutantes Vietnam and Portugal within the crew level, in conjunction with 2019 Girls’s Global Cup runners-up Netherlands. The United States will play the whole thing of the gang level in New Zealand. The U.S. will open Crew E play in opposition to Vietnam on July 22 at Eden Park in Auckland/Tāmaki Makaurau (1 p.m. native / 9 p.m. ET on July 21 on FOX, Telemundo, Universo and Peacock), which will even function the host venue for the Opening Rite of the 2023 Global Cup on July 20 when New Zealand performs Norway. The United States then faces Netherlands on July 27 at Wellington Regional Stadium in Wellington/Te Whanganui-a-Tara (1 p.m. native / 9 p.m. ET on July 26 on FOX, Telemundo, Universo and Peacock), adopted by way of Portugal on Aug. 1 at Eden Park in Auckland/Tāmaki Makaurau (7 p.m. native / 3 a.m. ET on FOX, Telemundo and Peacock).
WORLD CUP FORMAT
The Global Cup layout requires seven fits to win the match, together with 4 within the knockout rounds, up from six fits it took to win the Girls’s Global Cups for the entire tournaments from 1991-2011. The highest two groups from each and every of the 8 teams will qualify for the Spherical of 16. The United States is making its 9th look in a FIFA Girls’s Global Cup and is considered one of seven nations to look in all 9 editions of the match. The others are Brazil, Germany, Japan, Nigeria, Norway and Sweden.
OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAINS
On July 7, U.S. head trainer Vlatko Andonovski named midfielder Lindsey Horan and ahead Alex Morgan as captains of the USWNT main into the Girls’s Global Cup. Whilst each have served as USWNT captain on a large number of events, with defender Becky Sauerbrunn lacking the Global Cup because of a foot damage, the duo will suppose the distinction which has been formally given to 18 other avid gamers over the 38 years of this system. When Horan and Morgan are at the box on the similar time, Horan will put on the armband.
USA WORLD CUP ROSTER NOTES
- Alex Morgan is the highest scorer on the US’s Global Cup roster with 121 objectives. Megan Rapinoe has 63, Lindsey Horan has 27, Dunn and Lavelle each and every have 24 and Ertz has 20.
- The common age of the U.S. roster is 28.5 years outdated. The United States’s 2015 and 2019 Girls’s Global Cup rosters additionally averaged round 28-years-old.
- Thompson is the youngest participant at the roster at age 18. She is the fourth teen and 2d youngest participant ever to be named to a U.S. Global Cup roster in the back of present USWNT assistant trainer Tiffany Roberts Sahaydak. Roberts used to be 18 years, 1 month and 1 day outdated when she began in opposition to China PR within the opening recreation of the 1995 FIFA Girls’s Global Cup. Thompson will probably be 18 years, 8 months and 15 days outdated when the US opens the Global Cup on July 22 vs. Vietnam.
- Naomi Girma, Trinity Rodman, Sophia Smith and Alyssa Thompson are the primary avid gamers born within the 2000s to be named to a Girls’s Global Cup roster for the US.
- Midfielder Savannah DeMelo, who’s taking part in a stellar season for Racing Louisville FC, is the 3rd participant ever to make a U.S. Global Cup roster with out up to now incomes a cap. Debbie Keller used to be the primary to take action in 1995 and Shannon Boxx used to be the second one in 2003. DeMelo has been in coaching camps with the senior facet, maximum lately being known as up within the fall of 2022, and could have an opportunity for her debut cap in the US’s WWC Ship-Off Fit on July 9 vs. Wales in San Jose, Calif.
- The Ship-Off fit may be the two hundredth cap for Rapinoe, who’s sitting on 199 appearances for the US. Rapinoe would develop into the 14th participant in USWNT historical past to achieve the 200-cap milestone.
- Andonovski is 49W-6D-5L in 60 video games and went unbeaten (22W-1D-0L) in his first 23 fits accountable for the USWNT, surroundings a report for the most productive get started for a head trainer in USWNT historical past. The United States opened the Andonovski generation on a 16-game successful streak.
IN FOCUS: WALES
FIFA Global Rating: 31
UEFA Rating: 10
Global Cup Appearances: N/A
Best possible Global Cup End: N/A
Report vs. USA: N/A
Head Trainer: Gemma Grainger (ENG)
WALES WOMEN’S NATIONAL TEAM ROSTER BY POSITION
Goalkeepers (3): 1-Laura O’Sullivan (Cardiff Town Girls), 12-Olivia Clark (Bristol Town, ENG), 21-Saffia Middleton-Patel (Manchester United, ENG)
Defenders (9): 2-Lily Woodham (Studying (ENG), 3-Gemma Evans (Studying (ENG), 5-Rhiannon Roberts (Unattached), 18-Esther Morgan (Unattached), 23-Ffion Morgan (Bristol Town, ENG)
Midfielders (11): 6-Jose Inexperienced (Leicester Town, ENG), 7-Ceri Holland (Liverpool, ENG), 8- Angharad James (Tottenham Hotspur, ENG) , 10-Jess Fishlock (OL Reign, USA), 13-Mary McAteer (Unattached), 14-Hayley Ladd (Manchester United, ENG), 16-Charlie Estcourt (Unattached), 19-Megan Wynne (Southampton, ENG), 20-Carrie Jones (Manchester United, ENG), 22-Anna Filbey (Crystal Palace, ENG), 24-Chloe Williams (Blackburn Rovers, ENG)
Forwards (4): 9-Kayleigh Inexperienced (Unattached), 11-Hannah Cain (Leicester Town, ENG), 15-Elise Hughes (Crystal Palace, ENG), 17-Ella Powell (Bristol Town, ENG)
WALES NOTES:
- Wales simply overlooked qualifying for the 2023 FIFA Girls’s Global Cup, dropping a single-leg fit in the second one spherical of the UEFA playoffs by way of a 2-1 rating in time beyond regulation to Switzerland. Rhiannon Roberts scored within the nineteenth minute of that fit, however Switzerland equalized within the forty fifth minute and dramatically received the sport in 121st minute to steer clear of the upcoming penalty kick shoutout.
- Wales midfielder Jessica Fishlock, considered one of her nation’s maximum mythical avid gamers, has performed in each season of the NWSL, considering OL Reign.
- Fishlock is by way of some distance probably the most capped participant at the roster with 141 video games performed and by way of some distance the main scorer with 36 occupation objectives.
- Angharad James, who performs in England for Tottenham Hotspur, has 17 occupation objectives to head together with her 69 caps.
- 9 avid gamers at the Wales roster play in England’s top-flight, together with 3 for Manchester United, whilst six play within the FA Girls’s Championship (2nd Department).
- Wales maximum enjoy goalkeeper is 31-year-old Laura O’Sullivan from Cardiff Town Girls who has 59 caps. She is the one participant at the roster that performs in Wales, even supposing 5 avid gamers are between golf equipment.
- Wales defender Sophie Ingle, who’s the standard Wales captain and who performs for English energy Chelsea, is suspended from this fit after receiving a crimson card in her most up-to-date global fit, a 1-1 tie with Portugal on April 11.
