Supervisor Emma Hayes has chosen her first roster for the US forward of a pair of friendlies as she prepares to steer the ladies’s nationwide group on the Paris Olympics.
Hayes, named US coach final November, completed her remaining season as coach of Chelsea on Saturday, successful the group’s fifth straight Girls’s Tremendous League Title with a 6-0 rout of Manchester United.
Her first US roster introduced Tuesday consists of two Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League gamers known as as much as the nationwide group for the primary time, Chicago Pink Stars defender Sam Staab and Washington Spirit midfielder Hal Hershfelt.
The group will play South Korea on 1 June in Commerce Metropolis, Colorado, earlier than a rematch on 4 June in St. Paul, Minnesota.
The 23-player roster is Hayes’ final probability to take a look at gamers earlier than she names an 18-player roster for the Olympics. America will play a pair of sendoff matches in July.
“I count on full dedication from everybody to soak up in a short time the issues that I worth as crucial in order that we are able to compete this summer season. I do know they’re a extremely coachable group and I’m wanting ahead to difficult them,” Hayes mentioned in a press release. “It’s time to go to work. I can’t wait to satisfy the followers and it’s actually time to get behind the group as we get nearer to placing a roster collectively for the Olympics.”
Former coach Vlatko Andonovski resigned from the US group following final yr’s disappointing end within the Girls’s World Cup. Twila Kilgore led the group within the interim whereas Hayes completed the season with Chelsea. Kilgore will now function an assistant coach below Hayes.
Captain Lindsey Horan, amongst 5 gamers from European groups on the roster, will be a part of coaching camp after her membership, Lyon, faces Barcelona for the Champions League title on Saturday.
A notable omission from the roster is veteran goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher, who was injured whereas taking part in in a match for the Chicago Pink Stars on 12 Might.
The US roster by place with membership affiliation:
Goalkeepers
Jane Campbell (Houston Sprint), Aubrey Kingsbury (Washington Spirit), Casey Murphy (North Carolina Braveness).
Defenders
Tierna Davidson (NJ/NY Gotham), Emily Fox (Arsenal), Naomi Girma (San Diego Wave), Casey Krueger (Washington Spirit), Jenna Nighswonger (NJ/NY Gotham), Emily Sonnett (NJ/NY Gotham), Sam Staab (Chicago Pink Stars).
Midfielder
Korbin Albert (Paris Saint-Germain), Sam Coffey (Portland Thorns), Hal Hershfelt (Washington Spirit), Lindsey Horan (Lyon), Rose Lavelle (NJ/NY Gotham), Lily Yohannes (Ajax).
Forwards
Crystal Dunn (NJ/NY Gotham), Catarina Macario (Chelsea), Alex Morgan (San Diego Wave), Trinity Rodman (Washington Spirit), Jaedyn Shaw (San Diego Wave), Sophia Smith (Portland Thorns), Mallory Swanson (Chicago Pink Stars)
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