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USWNT’s final pre-World Cup roster includes surprise return of Julie Ertz after 20 months away

The U.S. women’s national team’s biggest hole tentatively and stunningly closed on Tuesday, when Julie Ertz was named to the USWNT’s last pre-World Cup roster after nearly 20 months away from soccer. Ertz, a two-time world champion who’d been a fearsome fixture in midfield, has not played for the USWNT since the Tokyo Olympics. In […]

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March 28, 2023

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Dates, TV schedule, groups, odds, how to watch

The 2023 Women’s World Cup is near. It begins July 20 in Australia and New Zealand. And when it does, with 32 teams contesting 64 games, it will become the grandest women’s sporting event in modern history. It will be cold, and inconvenient for U.S. viewers because of the time difference; but it will be […]

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June 1, 2023

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Ricardo Pepi, rebounding from World Cup snub, sends USMNT to Nations League semis

When Ricardo Pepi got the fateful call that every U.S. men’s national team player dreaded — when Gregg Berhalter rang in early November to break the news that he wouldn’t be going to the World Cup — Pepi hung up. He wasn’t necessarily angry. “I was in shock,” he’d later say. “It took me five […]

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March 28, 2023

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USWNT star Rose Lavelle suffers injury ‘setback,’ World Cup availability in question

The 2022 World Cup is two months away, but one of the U.S. women’s national team’s best players remains off the pitch. Midfielder Rose Lavelle hasn’t played since she suffered an apparent knee injury on April 8 that forced her to miss the team’s second international friendly against Ireland and likely won’t return to her […]

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May 24, 2023

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FIFA plots ‘path to equal pay’ at Women’s World Cup, but 2023 prize money still 25% of men’s pot

Plotting a long overdue “path” toward equality, FIFA president Gianni Infantino announced Thursday that the global soccer governing body’s “ambition” and “objective” is to have equal prize money on offer at the 2026 and 2027 men’s and women’s World Cups. Infantino also said that, in the more immediate term, players and staff at the 2023 […]

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March 16, 2023

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Catarina Macario, a USWNT star felled by ACL injury, will miss 2023 World Cup

Catarina Macario, the brightest young star in U.S. women’s soccer until she suffered a torn ACL last June, said Tuesday that she will miss this summer’s World Cup while continuing to recover from the injury. Macario, now 23, said in a statement that, “while I’m excited and super optimistic about my future as a footballer, […]

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May 23, 2023

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FIFA scraps ill-fated 2026 World Cup format, but new plan presents other pros and cons

Six years after initially agreeing to overhaul the format of the men’s World Cup, FIFA has scrapped its ill-fated plan for three-team groups and approved a new format for the 2026 tournament — a 48-team bonanza hosted by the U.S., Canada and Mexico. The new format will be more akin to the traditional one: four-team […]

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March 14, 2023

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Why FIFA’s threat of Women’s World Cup TV blackout in Europe is ‘outrageous’

FIFA president Gianni Infantino inflamed a monthslong squabble over Women’s World Cup television rights Monday with a calculated — but quite ridiculous — threat: If European broadcasters continue to offer relatively meager fees for the 2023 tournament, Infantino said, it might not be televised in Europe’s biggest markets at all. Infantino, speaking at a World […]

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May 2, 2023

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Timeline of a decades-long bond ruptured by World Cup drama

The decades-long relationship that fractured during the 2022 World Cup began on grass fields in northern New Jersey. It exploded into the public eye recently as a feud, a messy web of American soccer madness; but for over 30 years, it was as tight as could be. Danielle Reyna and Rosalind Berhalter “talked every day […]

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March 13, 2023

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United States, Mexico announce plans for joint bid to host 2027 Women’s World cup

The United States and Mexico are working to bring the 2027 Women’s World Cup to North America. The U.S. Soccer Federation and the Mexican Football Federation announced plans for a joint bid to host the next tournament. It would mark the third time that the United States has hosted, though it hasn’t hosted since 2003, […]

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April 20, 2023

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Corinne Diacre fired as France women’s head coach 5 months before World Cup

The France Football Federation announced on Thursday that Corinne Diacre, head coach of France’s women’s national team since 2017, has been fired just five months ahead of the World Cup. The FFF released a statement, explaining that there was a “a very significant divide” between leadership (Diacre) and a number of players, which had become […]

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March 9, 2023

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Julie Ertz reaches 1-year deal with Angel City FC ahead of World Cup

Julie Ertz is headed back to the National Women’s Soccer League. The United States Women’s National Team midfielder and two-time Player of the Year reached a one-year deal with Angel City FC, the club announced Monday. It marks the latest step in Ertz’s comeback to professional soccer after she gave birth in August. “I am […]

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April 17, 2023

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