The defending World Cup champions are returning to Commerce Metropolis for the primary time since 2019.
COMMERCE CITY, Colo. — The U.S. Ladies’s Nationwide Crew (USWNT) will return to Colorado for a match towards Columbia this summer time.
USWNT will play at Dick’s Sporting Items Park in Commerce Metropolis on Saturday, June 25 in preparation for qualifiers forward of the 2023 FIFA Ladies’s World Cup and 2024 Olympics, U.S. Soccer introduced Thursday.
U.S. Soccer additionally introduced the USWNT and Columbia will journey to Salt Lake Metropolis to fulfill at Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy, Utah on Tuesday, June 28. The 2 June pleasant matches would be the last video games earlier than the USA enters qualification for the 2023 Ladies’s World Cup.
Colorado Rapids season ticket members will obtain presale entry to tickets on Friday, April 29, previous to tickets happening sale to the general public on Monday, Might 2.
The crew’s participant pool incorporates a notable contingent of Colorado natives, together with common call-ups Lindsey Horan (Golden), Mallory Pugh (Highlands Ranch) and Sophia Smith (Windsor), together with midfielder Jaelin Howell (Windsor) who has made three appearances for the USWNT in 2022.
The USWNT has gone unbeaten in six matches at Dick’s Sporting Items Park (5-0-1) since 2008. The crew was final in Commerce Metropolis on April 4, 2019, after they defeated Australia.
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“We’re thrilled to have the ability to welcome again the U.S. Ladies’s Nationwide Crew to Dick’s Sporting Items Park and supply our followers with the chance to see the defending World Cup champions in individual,” stated Wayne Brant, Colorado Rapids Sr. VP of Enterprise Operations. “With so many native Coloradans on the crew, and such a vibrant native ladies’s soccer scene, internet hosting the U.S. Ladies is all of the extra particular to us and one thing we enormously sit up for annually.”
“Colombia has an excellent probability to make it to the World Cup and each groups shall be in our last preparations for our qualifying tournaments, so I count on some extremely aggressive matches between gamers who’re competing to characterize their nations in some actually essential video games,” stated U.S. head coach Vlatko Andonovski. “Once we get to Colorado, we’ll be coming off a stretch of greater than two months that the gamers have been with their golf equipment and away from the Nationwide Crew setting, so we’ll be seeking to get most worth out of our final days and video games collectively earlier than we go to Mexico for qualifying.”
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