Angel City’s Julie Ertz played just one match in May. (Craig Mitchelldyer/USA TODAY Sports)
Julie Ertz played just one NWSL match in May, but Angel City coach Freya Coombe isn’t worried about the midfielder’s readiness for the 2023 World Cup.
The 31-year-old won the 2015 and 2019 World Cup titles with the U.S. women’s national team, and she is expected to help the USWNT make a push for another this summer in Australia and New Zealand.
“She will get there,” Coombe told the Los Angeles Times when asked about Ertz’s fitness for the World Cup. “There’s one thing that I’ve learned about [in] my short time working with her is just her mentality. I think her mentality is such that she will absolutely get there.”
After nearly two years away from competition due to a knee injury and then a pregnancy, Ertz made her return in April, participating in the USWNT camp and signing with Angel City.
She already has won two World Cup titles, an Olympic medal and two U.S. player of the year awards, but she still has plenty of reason to…
