USA unveil 23-player squad for Nigeria friendlies in September

The four-time World champions and the nine-time African queens will lock horns subsequent month in two warm-up video games slated for 2 American cities

America girls’s nationwide crew head coach Vlatko Andonovski has unveiled a roster of 23 gamers to prosecute the back-to-back worldwide pleasant matches with Nigeria in September.

The Falcons will head to the States subsequent week, the place they are going to first face the USWNT on Sept. 3 at Kids’s Mercy Park in Kansas Metropolis, Kansas.

The 2 groups will meet once more three days later to commerce tackles at Audi Area in Washington, D.C.

And coach Andonovski has known as on three goalkeepers, six defenders, seven midfielders, and 7 strikers to shoot down the Tremendous Falcons.

Nigeria and america have certified for subsequent yr’s FIFA Girls’s World Cup – each groups have by no means missed an version. The 2 continental giants will look to start their build-up to the Mundial with the 2 friendlies.
 
United States head coach Vlatko Andonovski is obvious about that time.

“All of the gamers on the roster carried out nicely in Mexico at qualifying and have carried that type for his or her golf equipment, so we’ll proceed the method of rising as a crew with this group in what shall be two difficult video games in opposition to Nigeria,” stated Andonovski.

“Making ready for the World Cup is a protracted course of, and I’ve been very pleased with how our crew understands that course of, is prepared to do the work and is making optimistic strides each camp to get us to the place we wish to be subsequent summer time.”

The Tremendous Falcons have by no means crushed america, shedding all six encounters with the four-time World Cup winners, conceding 17 objectives whereas scoring twice.

The Nigerian girls additionally relinquished their continental crown at Morocco 2022, with South Africa claiming their first-ever Girls Africa Cup of Nation title.

The record of 23 gamers 

GOALKEEPERS (3): Aubrey Kingsbury (Washington Spirit), Casey Murphy (North Carolina Braveness), Alyssa Naeher (Chicago Crimson Stars)

DEFENDERS (6): Alana Cook dinner (OL Reign), Emily Fox (Racing Louisville FC), Naomi Girma (San Diego Wave FC), Sofia Huerta (OL Reign), Kelley O’Hara (Washington Spirit), Becky Sauerbrunn (Portland Thorns FC)

MIDFIELDERS (7): Sam Coffey (Portland Thorns FC; 0/0); Lindsey Horan (Olympique Lyon, FRA), Taylor Kornieck (San Diego Wave FC), Rose Lavelle (OL Reign), Kristie Mewis (NJ/NY Gotham FC), Ashley Sanchez (Washington Spirit), Andi Sullivan (Washington Spirit)

FORWARDS (7): Ashley Hatch (Washington Spirit), Alex Morgan (San Diego Wave FC), Mallory Pugh (Chicago Crimson Stars), Midge Purce (NJ/NY Gotham FC), Megan Rapinoe (OL Reign), Trinity Rodman (Washington Spirit), Sophia Smith (Portland Thorns FC)