The U.S. women’s national team will tackle the Republic of Ireland in a pair of April friendlies that would be the remaining video games earlier than coach Vlatko Andonovski names his roster for the Ladies’s World Cup.
The primary recreation will happen April 8 at Q2 Stadium in Austin, Texas, earlier than the 2 groups face off once more April 11 at Citypark in St. Louis — the house of latest Main League Soccer crew St. Louis Metropolis.
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Andonovski is ready to call his 23-player roster for the Ladies’s World Cup later within the spring forward of the match getting underway in Australia and New Zealand on July 20.
The USWNT has crushed Eire in all 13 of their earlier matchups, most just lately profitable 3-0 on the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, in August 2019. Eire, nevertheless, are driving excessive after qualifying for the Ladies’s World Cup for the primary time.
“Eire is a extremely motivated, hard-working crew that has proficient gamers with massive hearts who I do know are actually excited to be representing their nation in a World Cup,” Andonovski said.
“The 2 video games will likely be a fantastic take a look at at a vital time in our crew’s run to the World Cup. Whereas there will likely be loads of league video games for us to observe after April, these would be the remaining matches for our gamers with the nationwide crew earlier than we’ve got to select the World Cup roster, so they may carry that significance.”
The crew’s preparations for its makes an attempt to win a 3rd straight Ladies’s World Cup continued Wednesday when it beat Brazil 2-1 to win the SheBelieves Cup.
