They are certainly among the most anticipated call-ups of these World Cups: The USA Women’s National Team has chosen the 23-man squad that will be called up to defend the title they won in 2019.
US President Joe Biden and First Lady Dr. With a video introduced by Jill Biden, the likes of Taylor Swift, Sophia Bush, Amy Rodriguez and Mia Hamm announced the 23 players who will take the field in Australia and New Zealand.
With four stars already at their peak, no team has won three World Cups in a row. Uswnt has chances to do so but this year the coefficient of difficulty is even higher.
The face of the American team that will land in Australia and New Zealand is a different face from the one that lifted the World Cup in France in 2019. It appears that a generational change was partly desired and partly forced by injuries, with Tobin naming the likes of Heath, Kristen Press, Becky Sauerbrunn, Sam Mavis and Abby Dahlkemper.
Caterina Macario’s absence has already been announced, as she did not recover in time from rupturing her anterior cruciate ligament.
And now find yourself Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan, Kelly O’Hara, Alyssa Naher, Julie Ertz, and Crystal Dunn here to support the old guard.
Here comes the new generation, led by Trinity Rodman, Naomi Girma, and Sophia Smith.
The surprise of Vlatko Andonovski’s roster is perhaps very young promise Alyssa Thompson, preferred over Ashley Hatch and Savannah DeMelo, who faces the World Cup fresh with no previous appearances.
Instead, Lynn Williams reclaimed a spot lost at the last minute in 2019, the hero of an extraordinary season under NJ/NY Gotham FC.
With a midfield surprisingly rich in options, which has been a weak point of this new USA national team in recent years, Uswant is ready to do battle against the rest of the world.
This is the full list of the 23 Uswnt players called up by Vlatko Andonovski:
goalkeeper: Alyssa Naeher, Casey Murphy, Aubrey Kingsbury.
defendersStarring: Naomi Girma, Emily Fox, Kelly O’Hara, Emily Sonnett, Alana Cook, Sofia Huerta, Crystal Dunn.
midfielder: Ashley Sanchez, Julie Ertz, Lindsay Horan, Christy Mavis, Andy Sullivan, Savannah DeMello, Rose Lavelle.
AheadCast: Alex Morgan, Lynn Williams, Sophia Smith, Trinity Rodman, Megan Rapinoe, Alyssa Thompson.
For the defending champions, the World Cup will begin against Vietnam on 22 July, and then continue against the Netherlands on the 27th and Portugal on 1 August.