The final match that the U.S. ladies’s nationwide crew will play earlier than heading to the 2023 ladies’s World Cup might be within the Bay Space.
The USWNT will play Wales of their solely send-off match on Sunday, July 9 at 1 p.m. PT at PayPal Park, the house of the San Jose Earthquakes — and the possible dwelling of the Bay Space’s new NWSL crew.
It’s absolutely a wonderful highlight second for ladies’s soccer forward of the yet-to-be-named NWSL crew’s arrival within the spring of 2024. The Bay Space crew has 4 former nationwide crew gamers — Brandi Chastain, Leslie Osborne, Danielle Slaton and Aly Wagner — as a part of their possession group. In an announcement supplied by the crew to Bay Space Information Group, the quartet stated, “The Bay is the place champions come to play, and we’re psyched our neighborhood will get to be those to ship them off proper.”
It’ll be the fifth match that the USWNT has performed on the Earthquakes’ stadium, however the first since 2018. The Earthquakes famous the 4 earlier USWNT matches in San Jose have been all sellouts.
Earthquakes season ticket holders will get entry to a presale for tickets on Could 4 at 10 a.m. Tickets go on sale to most of the people on Monday, Could 8 at 10 a.m.
The match might be televised on TNT in English and on Universo, Peacock and Telemundo in Spanish.
The back-to-back World Cup winners will head to the Australia and New Zealand co-hosted World Cup after the match in San Jose and put together for his or her Group E opener in opposition to Vietnam on July 22 (July 21 regionally). They’ll even have a rematch of the 2019 ladies’s World Cup Ultimate in opposition to the Netherlands on July 27 (July 26 within the U.S.) earlier than concluding group play in opposition to Portugal on Aug. 1.
The present USWNT roster that’s dealing with Eire twice this week has 9 gamers with Bay Space ties on it, together with two former highschool stars — Tierna Davidson of Sacred Coronary heart Prep-Atherton and Naomi Girma of Pioneer-San Jose — and 7 extra gamers who performed collegiately regionally, together with Alex Morgan (Cal), Julie Ertz (Santa Clara) and Sophia Smith (Stanford).
