In total, 12 different players have been directly involved in a goal for the USA during the Concacaf W Championship, tallying either a goal or an assist. Pugh’s two assists are tied for second among all players so far this tournament, trailing only Canada’s Janine Beckie, who has three assists, all of which came in Canada’s opening win over Trinidad & Tobago. The USA has allowed just 18 shots and five shots on target this tournament, the second-fewest in the competition in both categories. Fifteen different players have scored for the USWNT so far in 2022 – Sophia Smith (7), Mallory Pugh (6), Catarina Macario (5), Rose Lavelle (3), Kristie Mewis (3), Ashley Sanchez (3), Alex Morgan (2), Ashley Hatch (2), Jaelin Howell (1), Trinity Rodman (2), Midge Purce (1), Kelley O’Hara (1), Andi Sullivan (1), Taylor Kornieck (1) and Emily Sonnett (1).
Mewis, Morgan and Smith are tied for fourth in scoring among all players this tournament. Canada’s Julia Grosso and Jessie Fleming and Jamaica’s Khadija “Bunny” Shaw currently lead the Golden Boot race with three goals scored apiece. Six different players have recorded an assist for the USA at the Concacaf W Championship – Mallory Pugh (2), Naomi Girma (1), Sofia Huerta (1), Ashley Sanchez (1), Kelley O’Hara (1) and Rose Lavelle (1).
Twelve players on the USA roster for the Concacaf W Championship have 20 caps or fewer: Sophia Smith, Midge Purce, Sofia Huerta, Emily Fox, Alana Cook, Ashley Sanchez, Casey Murphy, Rodman, Girma, Kornieck, Kingsbury and Coffey. Becky Sauerbrunn is the oldest player on the roster (37 years old) while Rodman is the youngest (20 years old) and was six years old when Sauerbrunn made her USWNT debut. Rapinoe celebrated her 37th birthday on July 5, but is a month younger than Sauerbrunn.
The USA’s other five goals this year came via own goals, the most ever in a calendar year in program history with three on Feb. 20 vs. New Zealand, and one each on April 12 vs. Uzbekistan and June 28 vs. Colombia. Twelve different players have registered an assist for the USWNT so far in 2022, led by Pugh with seven assists. Lavelle (6 assists), Sanchez (3), Alana Cook (2), O’Hara (2) and Huerta (2) also have multiple assists on the year while Megan Rapinoe, Purce, Hatch, Macario, Sullivan and Girma have one assist each.
In total, 19 different players have been directly involved in goals for the USWNT in 2022, tallying either a goal or an assist. Two players – Ashley Sanchez and Kristie Mewis – have appeared for the USA in all 11 matches in 2022. Defender Alana Cook leads the USA in total minutes played so far in 2022 with 746 minutes of action, followed by Sullivan (679 minutes) and Sanchez (658). Head coach Vlatko Andonovski is 38-2-6 in 46 games (two at the end of 2019, nine in 2020, 24 in 2021, and 11 so far in 2022).
Of the 23 players on this roster, seven are in their 30s while nine players are age 25 or younger. Through 11 games in 2022, the USWNT has had 24 goals scored by players under the age of 24. Over the course of 2019, 2020 and 2021 – a total of 57 games – the USWNT had a combined total of 10 goals scored by players under the age of 24. Morgan is the top scorer on the roster with 117 career goals. Rapinoe has 62 and Lindsey Horan has 25. Pugh has 24 goals for the USWNT while Rose Lavelle has 21. Nine different players have scored for the USA at the Concacaf W Championship – Alex Morgan (2), Sophia Smith (2), Kristie Mewis (2), Midge Purce (1), Rose Lavelle (1), Trinity Rodman (1), Emily Sonnett (1), Mallory Pugh (1) and Ashley Sanchez (1).
Eight players on the Concacaf W Championship roster were on the USWNT’s roster for Olympic Qualifying in 2020: Lindsey Horan, Rose Lavelle, Alyssa Naeher, Kelley O’Hara, Megan Rapinoe, Becky Sauerbrunn, Emily Sonnett and Andi Sullivan. Nine players on this year’s 23-player CWC roster were a part of the USA’s 2018 World Cup Qualifying roster, with Alex Morgan and Mallory Pugh joining Horan, Lavelle, Naeher, O’Hara, Rapinoe, Sauerbrunn and Sonnett.
The teams met again in the 2012 Olympic semifinal at Wembley Stadium, a 4-3 victory for the USA in a thrilling affair, punctuated by a header from Alex Morgan in the 123rd minute – which still stands as the latest goal in FIFA and Olympic history – to send the Americans through to the final. Sinclair tallied a hat trick for Canada, but a Megan Rapinoe brace and a penalty kick from Abby Wambach kept the match level until Morgan’s header in the waning seconds. Before the match in the 2020 Olympics, the most recent meeting between the teams came on February 18, 2021, at the SheBelieves Cup in Orlando. Rose Lavelle scored in the 79th minute to lift the USA to a 1-0 victory to kick off the three-game tournament. The USA threatened on a number of set piece opportunities throughout the evening, earning 13 corners to Canada’s five and several free kicks in dangerous territory.
USA ROSTER NOTES The USA has an overall combined record of 59-1-1 in World Cup and Olympic Qualifying matches, the lone loss coming in 2010 vs. Mexico in the semifinals of World Cup Qualifying. The USA’s only draw in World Cup or Olympic Qualifying officially came in the final of the 2008 Olympic Qualifying Tournament against Canada, though the USA prevailed on penalty kicks to win the tournament. The USA has won all five Olympic qualifying tournaments in which it has participated and has won eight of the nine World Cup qualifying tournaments in which it competed, the lone blemish coming in the 2010 Concacaf Women’s World Cup qualifying tournament, the USA fell to Mexico in the semifinal in Cancun, Mexico and Canada defeated Mexico in the championship game.
After creating quality chances and knocking on the door for much of the night, the USA finally broke through off a free kick when Lavelle, a second-half substitute, pounced poor clearance in the penalty box and fired home for the game’s lone goal. 2022 USWNT MEDIA GUIDE The 2022 U. Women’s National Team Media Guide is available for download. The Media Guide features all the history and statistic for the USWNT, as well as full bios on technical staff and the current top players, information on the USA’s Youth Women’s National Teams and general important information on U. Soccer. ALL EYES ON AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND With the opening match of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup just over a year away, 19 teams have already qualified for the tournament, which has been expanded to now feature 32 teams, up from 24 in both 2015 and 2019.
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Hatch suffered a muscle strain in her leg following the USA’s July 7 win over Jamaica and was ruled unable to compete the remainder of the tournament. Coffey, who received her first call-up to senior national team this June, joins the team in Monterrey in search of her first cap. Twenty-two players have seen action for the USA at the Concacaf W Championship, 12 of whom made their Concacaf Qualifying debuts. The only players who have yet to see action are goalkeeper Aubrey Kingsbury and Coffey. Two players – Lindsey Horan and Sophia Smith – have started all four matches for the USA at the Concacaf W Championship while four additional players – Sofia Huerta, Ashley Sanchez, Kristie Mewis and Rose Lavelle – have also seen action in every game of the tournament.
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