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Dennis Schneidler – USA TODAY Sports activities
The U.S. ladies’s nationwide workforce’s Emma Hayes period kicks off this weekend in Commerce Metropolis, Colo. because the squad prepares for Saturday’s pleasant in opposition to Korea — the primary of two within the coming week — below the brand new head coach.
Hayes named her first 23-player roster for the friendlies, tapping U.S. ladies’s nationwide workforce captain Lindsey Horan and a variety of veterans in Alex Morgan (San Diego Wave), Crystal Dunn, Rose Lavelle and Emily Sonnett (Gotham FC) alongside a younger core of Trinity Rodman (Washington Spirit), Sophia Smith (Portland Thorns), Mallory Swanson (Chicago Crimson Stars), and Catarina Macario (Chelsea). The roster additionally contains two senior nationwide workforce debutants in Spirit midfielder Hal Hershfelt and Chicago Crimson Stars defender Sam Staab in addition to a handful of kids in San Diego’s Jaedyn Shaw, Lily Yohannes (Ajax), and Korbin Albert (PSG).
Horan, a Colorado native, spoke to the media forward of the primary pleasant, sharing her enthusiasm about taking part in below Hayes, who takes over on the sidelines for the four-time Olympic champions after wrapping up the Girls’s Tremendous League season with Chelsea. Alongside a pair of mid-July friendlies, these would be the last matches performed by the workforce earlier than the 2024 Paris Olympics.
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