the The National Women’s Team It will face Brazil Twice during the next four days in the return match Gold medal for epic Olympics last summer. The Americans won 1-0 thanks to the elite goal by Malry Swanson to achieve the first gold medal in 12 years.
The opening match will be held on Saturday afternoon at the Sophie Stadium in Los Angeles, and Marx is the first time that the place will host a professional sporting event for women. Then both teams will go to San Jose, California to finish Doubleheader in Paypal Park on Tuesday evening.
Emma Hayes’s squad will not look like the team that took the stadium in Paris. For one, Swanson is not in this camp, nor Sophia Wilson. only Trinity RodmanA third of the “Espesso Triple”, was Available to choose. The appearance of the center Naomi Jerma Tirna Davidson, which was recently torn, will not participate. Without part Uswnt Beginners, Hayes promised to continue experimenting in these two games. This means giving players who have fewer experience in the maximum, so that when the next World Cup rotates in 2027, there will be a larger group of internationally experienced international players in Hayes Arsenal.
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There will be more experiences
Since USWnt won gold last summer, training camps that followed more about contacting the least experienced players so that Hayes and its employees could expand the gathering of the players.
For example, players such as Lily Yohannes, Tara Mckeown and Ally Sntnor have opportunities to earn minutes and play in high pressure situations in the past few months. Hayes said that Sinten told her after losing the final of Japan’s Chelifes Cup in February that she was “the most difficult game” played in her career. Hayes’s goal is to create more moments like these for players so that they are better armed to win the 2027 World Cup.
But stability in the Uswnt environment takes time. Hayes wants to see how players take learning from one game and apply it to the next player and the other after that.
“What I learned in this job is the extent of his teaching to play for this team for the players,” Hayes said on Friday. “Nevertheless comes the pressure and expectation,” I have to do the top, the highest level all the time, “which is great. It is ambitious. The facts are, you have to feel that you are on your way to this square. What I noticed in this camp is the conclusion of the gap in all areas within the team and this is the first starting point.”
Experience means that the links in this field may not be strong or clear, but they will help Hayes and their employees to be more intended for future players’ groups.
Because Hayes is not about hitting Brazil now; It comes to winning the World Cup in the future.
“You cannot move from the experience [one game] Hayes said: “Hayes, it is a step -by -step process.
“… I want to be in a qualified World Cup position, we have a truly strong group that has the accumulation of maximum first and foremost. And now, I really see this is a great thing for us … I want [the players] To work through this part of the trip in a way that they get the correct exposure at the right moment, and we are not just a victory in winning at any cost. “
Where does Kat Macario stand physically and mentally?
Macario has a turbulent journey due to injuries. After the lengthy ACL recovery, kept it out of the field for a long period of time, Makario faced another unexpected setback last summer when it was withdrawn from the Olympic Games menu due to “knee irritation”. She returned to her team Chelsea earlier this season and returned with the USWnt for the Shields Cup.
The 25 -year -old can play the role of No. 9 or No. 10, and he ultimately is healthy enough to play a major role for Hayes in preparation for the next World Cup (which will be the first in MacARIO with USWnt). Hayes said that Macario will play more than nine because of her ability to link the play between the lines and because it “threatens the box.”
Because of its annoying injuries, MacARIO has only 21 capsules and nine goals for the United States that Hayes said that people do not realize that they are “still growing in a WNT shirt” and that she had to remind the player – who recruited and trained in Chelsea – “among all the great things that bring it to this team.”
“Have we seen the best Cat Macario so far?” Hayes said. Certainly no. “” How long will it take? Always tell the players: They need to play continuously, and stay on the field. I think you get this [club] The season for her and the pre -season last season under her belt, I think we will start seeing another level.
“It is a wonderful spirit and a very desperate person to accomplish our program. So, it has another chance to do this.”
Alyssa Thompson’s growth
One of the most interesting players in this team is Thompson, the 20 -year -old. The young striker got her first teenage cover in October 2022 and was – perhaps prematurely – part of the 2023 World Cup list. But because of the injury, she fell from Saleh for a period of time.
Over the past six months, it has worked on Haye’s plans and has witnessed regular USWnt calls. It was a strong start for the NWSL season, too, as he scored two goals in the first three games in Angel City.
Hayes said: “In our future, I hope we can look at a person like Alyssa Thompson’s position, that is, a 17 -year -old child enters the program, and may be under preparation because the level is much higher.” “I think it’s in the best place in terms of its beginning [NWSL] season. I went to Angel City during the weekend and thought it was great. “
Since October, USWnt employees have been localized with localization and decision -making operations. Hayes and employees will say things to Thompson like, “Listen, at the higher level, you are a great specialist in 1-1, but when you play the best players in the world, they know how to get rid of you in a way that does not give you a single chance of 1-1,” Hayes said. They teach her how to do better with other players, create giving and communicate with No. 9, and ends in third place.
“When you play for me, I will download you in a way that excels in moving the player to another tactical level.” “But this means for a while, there is a lot of current thinking – you have to remember here, that and that.
“I feel that I am with Alyssa now, she is aware of it, so she is able to do this normally. So I am really looking to see her in this camp for these reasons.”
Laken Litman covers university football, university basketball and football for Fox Sports. I had previously written for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, USA Toys and Indianapolis Star. It is the author of “Strong Like A”, published in the Spring of 2022 to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the ninth title. Follow it in Lakenlitman.
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