FIFA Women's World Cup 7/21 Preview: What To Expect From USA From Vietnam?
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00:02 I'm not as versed on this team as you are.
00:06 Take me through the litany of great players
00:09 that we gotta keep our eye on tonight against Vietnam
00:12 and moving forward in the Women's World Cup.
00:14 - Well, it starts with Sophia Smith,
00:16 the forward for the Portland Thorns
00:18 and the NWSL Stanford product.
00:21 Phenomenal talent is the reigning NWSL MVP,
00:25 is the reigning US female soccer player of the year.
00:29 She's where it starts.
00:30 She was supposed to be joined on this frontline
00:33 by two tremendous players, Mallory Swanson,
00:36 who was absolutely on fire
00:37 in the first four or five months of this year,
00:39 first four months, 'cause she got hurt
00:40 in the fourth month of the year in April, Mallory Swanson.
00:44 And then also Katarina Macario, a prodigious talent,
00:49 who was playing in Europe and got hurt
00:51 at the end of the 2022 season with a torn ACL
00:55 and still has not returned to competitive soccer.
00:58 So that was supposed to be the frontline.
01:01 And without those two players,
01:03 with those two players missing,
01:04 Sophia Smith's kinda now having to take on
01:06 even more of a burden,
01:08 but you still have Alex Morgan there,
01:10 and she's obviously extremely talented
01:12 and playing well for San Diego.
01:15 You've got, you mentioned Trinity Rodman,
01:18 you've got young Alyssa Thompson.
01:20 So there are several possibilities there,
01:25 but he didn't start Trinity Rodman in the sendoff game,
01:29 the last game before this tournament.
01:30 So it'll be interesting to see
01:32 whether he starts Trinity tonight,
01:34 because Trinity came off the bench
01:37 in what had been a fairly lifeless game
01:39 for the first 40, 45 minutes,
01:41 and scored twice to beat Wales
01:43 in their final exhibition game.
01:45 So it's really, I think it's really interesting
01:48 to see what he does with that third forward spot
01:51 that Mallory Swanson vacated when she got in.
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