Andonovski Names 23-Player Roster For September Friendlies Against Nigeria In Kansas City, Kansas And Washington, D.C.

CHICAGO (Aug. 22, 2022) – U.S. Girls’s Nationwide Staff head coach Vlatko Andonovski has named a 23-player roster for 2 September pleasant matches towards Nigeria, the primary on Sept. 3 at Kids’s Mercy Park in Kansas Metropolis, Kansas (Kickoff at 12:30 p.m. CT / 1:30 p.m. ET with protection starting at Midday CT / 1 p.m. ET on FOX) and the second on Sept. 6 at Audi Discipline in Washington, D.C., introduced by Allstate (6 p.m. ET on ESPN2). All 23 gamers will go well with up for each matches.

 

The 23 gamers have been, in some unspecified time in the future, all part of the roster that helped the USA win the 2022 Concacaf W Championship in Mexico, together with midfielder Sam Coffey, who changed injured ahead Ashley Hatch after the group stage. Hatch is now wholesome and returns for these friendlies. Defender Crystal Dunn, who gave start to her son Marcel on Might 20, will be part of camp for coaching as she continues her return to health however won’t function within the matches.

 

“All of the gamers on the roster carried out properly in Mexico at qualifying and have carried that type for his or her golf equipment, so we’ll proceed the method of rising as a workforce with this group in what will likely be two difficult video games towards Nigeria,” mentioned Andonovski. “Making ready for the World Cup is an extended course of, and I’ve been very proud of how our workforce understands that course of, is keen to do the work and is making constructive strides each camp to get us to the place we need to be subsequent summer time.”

 

The U.S. certified for its ninth consecutive World Cup on July 7 following its second group stage match on the Concacaf W Championship. The Individuals went on to defeat Canada within the championship recreation to earn a berth to the 2024 Paris Olympics. These September friendlies would be the first home matches for the USWNT since qualifying for the 2023 FIFA Girls’s World Cup, which can kick off in lower than a 12 months in Australia and New Zealand. Nigeria additionally certified for a ninth consecutive Girls’s World Cup, incomes its berth earlier this summer time on the 2022 Girls’s Africa Cup of Nations.

 

A number of gamers on the roster have ties to the September’s recreation venues. Defender Becky Sauerbrunn, who attended the College of Virginia, and midfielder Kristie Mewis performed at FC Kansas Metropolis within the NWSL beneath Andonovski. Three gamers hail from the DMV (Washington D.C.-Maryland-Virginia) space in Emily Fox (Ashburn, Va.), Andi Sullivan (Lorton, Va.) and Midge Purce (Silver Spring, Md.), whereas six of the 23 gamers on this roster play within the NWSL for the Washington Spirit.

 

The match in Kansas Metropolis additionally brings the USWNT again to Andonovski’s dwelling space for the second time since he turned head coach on the finish of 2019, having most just lately confronted Korea Republic at Kids’s Mercy Park in October of 2021. Kansas Metropolis, Missouri was additionally just lately named as one among 11 U.S. host cities for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

 

U.S. Girls’s Nationwide Staff Roster by Place (Membership) – Sept. Friendlies vs. Nigeria:

GOALKEEPERS (3): Aubrey Kingsbury (Washington Spirit), Casey Murphy (North Carolina Braveness), Alyssa Naeher (Chicago Purple Stars)

DEFENDERS (6): Alana Cook dinner (OL Reign), Emily Fox (Racing Louisville FC), Naomi Girma (San Diego Wave FC), Sofia Huerta (OL Reign), Kelley O’Hara (Washington Spirit), Becky Sauerbrunn (Portland Thorns FC)

MIDFIELDERS (7): Sam Coffey (Portland Thorns FC; 0/0); Lindsey Horan (Olympique Lyon, FRA), Taylor Kornieck (San Diego Wave FC), Rose Lavelle (OL Reign), Kristie Mewis (NJ/NY Gotham FC), Ashley Sanchez (Washington Spirit), Andi Sullivan (Washington Spirit)

FORWARDS (7): Ashley Hatch (Washington Spirit), Alex Morgan (San Diego Wave FC), Mallory Pugh (Chicago Purple Stars), Midge Purce (NJ/NY Gotham FC), Megan Rapinoe (OL Reign), Trinity Rodman (Washington Spirit), Sophia Smith (Portland Thorns FC)

 

TICKETS

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Extra Notes:

  • Twenty-two of the 23 gamers on the roster play within the NWSL and eight of the 12 NWSL golf equipment are represented on this roster, together with 2021-22 UEFA Girls’s Champions League winners Olympique Lyon, which options 116-capped midfielder Lindsey Horan.
  • All 23 gamers on this roster have been in Monterrey, Mexico, for the USA’s victorious run on the 2022 Concacaf W Championship. The one participant from that squad not on this roster is defender Emily Sonnett, who’s working her manner again from harm.
  • Seven of the 23 gamers on this roster noticed motion within the USA’s most up-to-date match towards Nigeria, a 2-0 victory on June 16, 2021, to open Q2 Stadium in Austin, Texas.
  • Each matches towards Nigeria will likely be performed at dwelling venues of Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League groups within the Kansas Metropolis Present and reigning league champions Washington Spirit in addition to Main League Soccer golf equipment Sporting Kansas Metropolis and D.C. United, respectively.
  • The USA has performed ten matches in our nation’s capital from 1995-2017, all on the venerable RFK Stadium, which closed in 2019 and can in some unspecified time in the future be demolished. This would be the first-ever recreation for the U.S. Girls at Washington D.C.’s long-desired soccer particular stadium, which D.C. United opened in the summertime of 2018.
  • Nigeria, which is led by an American, long-time school coach Randy Waldrum, earned its berth to the 2023 FIFA Girls’s World Cup by advancing to the semifinals of the 2022 Girls’s Africa Cup of Nations that was held in Morocco. Within the semifinal, Nigeria fell in penalty kicks to the hosts in entrance of 45,562 followers in Rabat after a 1-1 tie throughout regulation and time beyond regulation. Nigeria completed that recreation with 9 gamers after receiving two purple playing cards. The Tremendous Falcons then fell within the Third-Place Match, 1-0, to Zambia to complete an uncharacteristic fourth within the WAFCON, however that can be indicative of the expansion of the ladies’s recreation on the African continent.
  • The Tremendous Falcons are 11-time African champions and by far essentially the most profitable girls’s soccer nation in Africa. Nigeria has participated in all eight FIFA Girls’s World Cups which have been contested.

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