Contemporary off a 2024 Concacaf W Gold Cup victory, U.S. ladies’s nationwide workforce interim head coach Twila Kilgore has named a 23-player roster for the upcoming SheBelieves Cup. Kilgore will coach her closing two matches as interim earlier than becoming a member of the subsequent USWNT supervisor Emma Hayes’ employees as an assistant. The event is about to start on April 6 in Atlanta, Georgia, and conclude on April 9 in Colombus, Ohio. The USWNT will host Brazil, Canada, and Japan within the annual occasion. 

Squad rotation and analysis remains to be a theme forward of the Olympics. There are 19 gamers getting back from the Gold Cup roster however new names and returning faces are included throughout the SheBelieves Cup camp record. Forwards Catarina Macario and Mallory Swanson have returned after prolonged damage absences, and 16-year-old Ajax midfielder Lily Yohannes and 21-year-old Paris Saint-Germain defender Eva Gaetino have earned their first senior workforce call-ups.

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Check out the roster:

USWNT 2024 SheBelieves Cup Roster

Goalkeepers (3): Jane Campbell (Houston Sprint), Casey Murphy (North Carolina Braveness), Alyssa Naeher (Chicago Pink Stars)

Defender (8): Abby Dahlkemper (San Diego Wave FC), Crystal Dunn (NJ/NY Gotham FC), Tierna Davidson (NY/NJ Gotham FC), Emily Fox (Arsenal FC), Eva Gaetino (Paris Saint-Germain), Naomi Girma (San Diego Wave FC), Casey Krueger (Washington Spirit), Jenna Nighswonger (NY/NJ Gotham FC)

Midfielders (6): Korbin Albert (Paris Saint-Germain), Sam Coffey (Portland Thorns FC), Lindsey Horan (Olympique Lyon, FRA), Olivia Moultrie (Portland Thorns FC), Emily Sonnett (NJ/NY Gotham FC), Lily Yohannes (AFC Ajax)

Forwards (6): Catarina Macario (Chelsea FC), Alex Morgan (San Diego Wave FC), Trinity Rodman (Washington Spirit), Jaedyn Shaw (San Diego Wave FC), Sophia Smith (Portland Thorns FC), Mallory Swanson (Chicago Pink Stars)

Swanson and Macario return from damage

Swanson hung out as a coaching camp participant in the course of the Gold Cup however didn’t take part within the event. The 25-year-old makes her return to the complete roster for the primary time since sustaining a torn patellar tendon throughout a pleasant towards Eire in April 2023. The attacker is coming off two membership matches with the Chicago Pink Stars and was the 2023 SheBelieves Cup MVP. 

“Mal we had the benefit of seeing within the final camp as a coaching participant. She was acting at a really excessive, very robust, stage. Did not fairly have the health beneath her to do extra, and I believe it was the proper factor to convey her in as a coaching participant,” Kilgore instructed the media on Swanson’s return.

‘She was then ready to return into her membership setting the place she’s excelled and been capable of choose up extra minutes and issues like that. She’s in an excellent spot and we’re very excited to have her again, not simply as a participant, however for what she brings in. Who she is as an individual to the setting.” 

Macario’s return comes after an extended rehab from an ACL damage sustained in June 2022. She final performed for the USWNT in the course of the 2022 SheBelieves Cup the place she earned MVP honors. The 24-year-old Macario not too long ago returned to the pitch with Chelsea FC in England the place she performs for Hayes. 

She featured off the bench and scored in every of her first two video games and offered assists throughout Chelsea’s first-leg UWCL quarterfinal win over Ajax and a latest victory towards Aston Villa. Macario’s minutes have been restricted, however her efforts have earned her call-up for Hayes and Kilgore.

“Her minutes have been rising over there at Chelsea. We have been watching intently however what’s been most spectacular about her as she’s come again is simply the standard of her influence on the sport whatever the quantity of minutes that she’s been taking part in,” Kilgore elaborated. 

“So we’re actually excited to get her reintegrated into our workforce. I’ve additionally met along with her in particular person during the last couple months, I do know that is one thing that’s close to and pricey to her, and she or he’s simply actually excited to get again in the environment. We welcome them each with open arms and are very excited.”

Accidents preserve some gamers out as a precaution

Rose Lavelle and Lynn Williams are two members of the Gold Cup roster not a part of the SheBelieves Cup camp. Midge Purce and Casey Krueger additionally picked up knocks of their earlier membership video games. Krueger is a member of the latest roster and anticipated to compete, whereas Kilgore famous that they’re awaiting an replace from NJ/NY Gotham FC on Purce, who might be allowed as a substitute participant if wholesome.

Kilgore additional defined in her press convention that Lavelle’s minutes had been additionally restricted throughout Gold Cup as a precaution and that her omission from SheBelieves Cup is “largely a preventative measure when it comes to the place she’s at … as a result of we do anticipate that she can be obtainable later for alternatives.”