(Reuters) – The U.S. girls’s nationwide crew may have 10 members of the squad that received bronze finally yr’s Tokyo Olympics for his or her first training camp of 2022 subsequent week in Austin, Texas.
With no internationals scheduled in the course of the Jan. 19-28 camp, USWNT head coach Vlatko Andonovski will use the chance to have extra intense classes to kick off a yr in which they hope to qualify for the 2023 Women’s World Cup and 2024 Paris Olympics.
“Without any matches that we want to taper for, we are able to get in some extra intense trainings and full-field scrimmages, which is nice as we want to give this group as many possibilities as doable to play collectively in a nationwide crew setting,” Andonovski mentioned in a press release on Wednesday.
“We perceive that among the gamers are coming off a break, so we’ll hold that in thoughts as we hit the bottom operating in 2022 for what will probably be an important yr for these gamers and our crew.”
The camp marks the return of a number of World Cup and Olympic veterans who didn’t make the journey to Australia final November for the ultimate two matches of 2021, together with goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher, defender Kelley O’Hara, midfielder Samantha Mewis and ahead Mallory Pugh.
The solely participant on the roster incomes her first call-up to the USWNT is 2021 National Women’s Soccer League Rookie of the Year Trinity Rodman, a 19-year-old ahead who remains to be age-eligible for the 2022 Under-20 Women’s World Cup.
The world champions play their first matches of the yr at subsequent month’s SheBelievesCup after they face the Czech Republic, New Zealand and Iceland in a four-team match being held in Carson, California and Frisco, Texas.
(Reporting by Frank Pingue in Toronto, enhancing by Ed Osmond)
