US captain Becky Sauerbrunn will miss Fifa Women’s World Cup—reports
(FILES) USA’s Becky Sauerbrunn controls the ball through the girls’s pleasant soccer match between New Zealand and the US at Sky Stadium in Wellington on January 18, 2023. (Picture by Marty MELVILLE / AFP)
Becky Sauerbrunn, captain of the two-time defending Girls’s World Cup champion United States squad, will miss the upcoming World Cup as a result of a foot damage, in response to a number of reviews Friday.
Sauerbrunn, a 38-year-old defender, suffered a setback earlier this month with the Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League’s Portland Thorns of an damage suffered in April, unnamed sources advised ESPN and The Athletic.
This 12 months’s Girls’s World Cup, co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand, kicks off July 20.
Sauerbrunn has 216 caps for the Individuals and helped the US girls seize World Cup titles in 2015 in Canada and 2019 in France. She additionally contributed to 2012 Olympic gold in London and was on the third-place squad on the Tokyo Olympics.
She helped Portland win the NWSL title final 12 months and was a part of championship sides with Kansas Metropolis in 2014 and 2015.
US head coach Vlatko Andonovski is predicted to call his closing roster for the event within the subsequent few days.
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