America girls’s nationwide soccer staff is aiming for a three-peat on the 2023 FIFA Ladies’s World Cup — and the squad will likely be led by a number of super-talented veterans.
Megan Rapinoe, who captained the staff alongside Carli Lloyd and Alex Morgan in 2019, will likely be again for her closing World Cup run, having introduced her plans to retire on the finish of the 2023 season.
“It’s with a deep sense of peace & gratitude that I’ve determined this will likely be my closing season enjoying this stunning recreation,” Rapinoe, 38, tweeted on July 8 alongside a throwback photograph of herself as a child. “I by no means might have imagined the methods through which soccer would form & change my life endlessly, however by the look on this little lady’s face, she knew all alongside.”
Rapinoe has performed for the USWNT since 2006, serving to lead the staff to Olympic gold in 2012 and World Cup victory in 2015 and 2019. Her newest World Cup look marks her and her teammates’ first cup for the reason that USWNT settled their equal pay lawsuit in opposition to U.S. Soccer, which oversees each the ladies’s and males’s groups.
In Might 2022, U.S. Soccer assured that each nationwide groups will obtain the identical pay when competing in worldwide matches and competitions. The groups can even pool unequal prize cash funds that U.S. Soccer receives from FIFA, the governing physique that oversees worldwide soccer and the World Cup. That prize cash will likely be shared equally amongst members of each the ladies’s and males’s groups.
“No different nation has ever achieved this,” U.S. Soccer president, Cindy Cone, mentioned on the time. “I feel everybody must be actually pleased with what we’ve achieved right here. It actually, actually, is historic.”
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Forward of their first recreation in opposition to Vietnam on Friday, July 21, scroll down to satisfy all 9 returning members of the U.S. staff’s World Cup roster:
