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Twenty-four players are about to get a quasi-tryout for the United States women’s national team.
U.S. head coach Emma Hayes named her developmental roster that will train alongside the senior team next week in Southern California. Sixteen players are already confirmed professionals (with the subsequent Wednesday announcements of two Seattle Reign signings) with birth years for the entire group ranging from 2002 to 2007.
The “Futures Camp,” as U.S. Soccer is calling it, will allow Hayes to evaluate young, promising players up close and in the national team environment to see if they could be part of her plans on the road to the 2027 World Cup and beyond.
“I always like to do things like, I don’t just zoom in or get into the weeds of things,” Hayes said on Tuesday. “Let’s create high-level strategy in and around what we want to see for our program, and that starts in January with combining the futures and the WNT side by side.”
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