For the players who want to represent the U.S. women’s national team at the 2023 Women’s World Cup, the window to make their mark is closing rapidly.
USWNT coach Vlatko Andonovski must submit his final 23-woman roster to FIFA by July 10, and the tournament starts July 20, when the U.S. faces Vietnam in Auckland, New Zealand. However, Andonovski is expected to announce his squad by June 26, which is when USWNT players will head to a pre-World Cup camp. That leaves players with two months to earn a spot, which will consist entirely of club play now that there are no more international windows left before the World Cup.
We have done three editions of the USWNT Big Board for the 2023 Women’s World Cup in which we’ve assessed who will make the roster, and for this fourth edition so close to the tournament, we might’ve expected few (if any) questions. But whew, that could not be further from what’s happened — as Andonovski said himself recently, there are 10 to 12 players still fighting for six to seven spots.
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This might be the most surprising Big Board yet, with some unexpected players becoming sudden locks, and would-be stars falling off the roster entirely, which leaves open spaces throughout the roster. In fact, we can’t remember…
