The Olympic gold medal-winning United States ladies’s crew will flip their focus in direction of the 2027 World Cup once they return to motion later this month.
Coach Emma Hayes has named a 26-strong squad for a pair of friendlies in opposition to Iceland on October 24 and 27 and a gathering with Argentina three days later.
Eighteen members of the Olympic squad, which beat Brazil within the last in Paris, have been known as up for the video games though ahead Trinity Rodman is lacking as she continues her return from harm.
Hayes known as up six uncapped gamers together with Paris Saint-Germain defender Eva Gaetino and she or he mentioned that the video games have been an opportunity to have a good time the crew’s triumph in entrance of their very own followers whereas turning consideration in direction of the 2027 World Cup in Brazil.
“There is not any doubt that the summer time was good, and we wish to make these three video games about celebrating some superb accomplishments and gamers, however on the similar time, we will not relaxation on any laurels,” mentioned Hayes.
“Our focus is ahead, our focus is on our course of, and we wish to hold chasing new heights. I really like that we get to see most of our Olympic Staff once more after a number of months, however I additionally love attending to work with some newer gamers and consider how they carry out in our surroundings,” she added.
In Brazil, the USA might be on the lookout for a report fifth World Cup title so as to add to their 5 Olympic golds.
English coach Hayes, who took over the USA in Might after a profitable spell with Chelsea, mentioned her employees have been utilizing the time since Paris to guage attainable new recruits to her squad from the Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League and elsewhere.
“My teaching crew has been travelling throughout, watching gamers, not simply throughout the NWSL, however wherever our gamers is likely to be and constructing a much bigger understanding,” she mentioned.
Hayes didn’t think about gamers from the Below-20 squad which completed third within the current Below-20 ladies’s World Cup so as to enable them ample relaxation.
The crew will play two pleasant video games in Europe in November, taking up European champions England at Wembley Stadium, London on November 30 after which the Netherlands within the Hague on December 3.
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