Recent off a 2024 Concacaf W Gold Cup victory, U.S. girls’s nationwide workforce interim head coach Twila Kilgore has named a 23-player roster for the upcoming SheBelieves Cup. Kilgore will coach her closing two matches as interim earlier than becoming a member of the following USWNT supervisor Emma Hayes’ workers as an assistant. The event is ready to start on April 6 in Atlanta, Georgia, and conclude on April 9 in Colombus, Ohio. The USWNT will host Brazil, Canada, and Japan within the annual occasion.
Squad rotation and analysis remains to be a theme forward of the Olympics. There are 19 gamers getting back from the Gold Cup roster however new names and returning faces are included throughout the SheBelieves Cup camp record. Forwards Catarina Macario and Mallory Swanson have returned after prolonged damage absences, and 16-year-old Ajax midfielder Lily Yohannes and 21-year-old Paris Saint-Germain defender Eva Gaetino have earned their first senior workforce call-ups.
“That is an evolving workforce that’s desperate to get again collectively and proceed progressing,” mentioned Kilgore. “The W Gold Cup supplied plenty of gamers with wanted experiences and introduced us with completely different adversities we needed to overcome collectively. We are going to take all these experiences with us into SheBelieves and past. After all, we’re thrilled to welcome again Mal and Cat and proceed to include some much less skilled gamers into the combo.”
Swanson frolicked as a coaching camp participant through the Gold Cup however didn’t take part within the event. The 25-year-old makes her return to the complete roster for the primary time since sustaining a torn patellar tendon throughout a pleasant towards Eire in April 2023. The attacker is coming off two membership matches with the Chicago Crimson Stars and was the 2023 SheBelieves Cup MVP.
Macario’s return comes after an extended rehab from an ACL damage sustained in June 2022. She final performed for the USWNT through the 2022 SheBelieves Cup the place she earned MVP honors. The 24-year-old Macario lately returned to the pitch with Chelsea FC in England the place she performs for Hayes. She featured off the bench and scored in every of her first two video games and supplied assists throughout Chelsea’s first leg quarterfinal win and up to date March 24 victory towards Aston Villa.
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Check out the roster:
USWNT 2024 SheBelieves Cup Roster
Goalkeepers (3): Jane Campbell (Houston Sprint), Casey Murphy (North Carolina Braveness), Alyssa Naeher (Chicago Crimson Stars)
Defender (8): Abby Dahlkemper (San Diego Wave FC), Crystal Dunn (NJ/NY Gotham FC), Tierna Davidson (NY/NJ Gotham FC), Emily Fox (Arsenal FC), Eva Gaetino (Paris Saint-Germain), Naomi Girma (San Diego Wave FC), Casey Krueger (Washington Spirit), Jenna Nighswonger (NY/NJ Gotham FC)
Midfielders (6): Korbin Albert (Paris Saint-Germain), Sam Coffey (Portland Thorns FC), Lindsey Horan (Olympique Lyon, FRA), Olivia Moultrie (Portland Thorns FC), Emily Sonnett (NJ/NY Gotham FC), Lily Yohannes (AFC Ajax)
Forwards (6): Catarina Macario (Chelsea FC), Alex Morgan (San Diego Wave FC), Trinity Rodman (Washington Spirit), Jaedyn Shaw (San Diego Wave FC), Sophia Smith (Portland Thorns FC), Mallory Swanson (Chicago Crimson Stars)