The U.S. Girls’s Nationwide soccer staff will likely be making a cease in Philly this October, as a part of a three-game pleasant collection that may even function a celebration of the staff’s retiring stars Alex Morgan and Alyssa Naeher.
U.S. Soccer and the Philadelphia Union introduced Monday that the staff will face Portugal twice in the course of the October FIFA window, first at Chester’s Subaru Park, house of the Union, on Thursday, Oct. 23, at 7 p.m., then at Pratt & Whitney Stadium in East Hartford, Conn., on Sunday, Oct. 26, at 4 p.m.
The opponent for the third recreation at CPKC Stadium in Kansas Metropolis, Mo., on Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 7 p.m. has but to be decided. The sport would be the first time the nationwide staff has performed at that venue.
The Subaru Park recreation will function a pregame retirement celebration for Morgan, the San Diego Wave striker who hung up her cleats final September. Morgan, who completed her worldwide profession with two FIFA World Cup championships and an Olympic gold medal, coincidentally scored the primary of her 123 worldwide targets 15 years in the past at Subaru Park, in opposition to China.
Goalkeeper Naeher, who performed school soccer for Penn State and was U.S. Soccer’s 2024 Feminine Participant of the 12 months, will likely be celebrated in her house state of Connecticut within the second match. She introduced her retirement from the USWNT final November, however has continued to play for the NWSL’s Chicago Stars, although she’s been out with an damage since Could.
The U.S. Males’s Deaf Nationwide Crew may even play in East Hartford at 1 p.m. in opposition to a yet-to-be-determined worldwide opponent.
Commemorative bobbleheads of Morgan and Naeher will likely be given to the primary 2,000 followers at their respective video games.
October’s recreation would be the ninth time the USWNT have performed in Chester, in keeping with U.S. Soccer, and the primary since April 2022, when the staff walloped Uzbekistan, 9-0.
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The staff final performed at Lincoln Monetary Area in 2019, coincidentally additionally in opposition to Portugal, in a recreation that nonetheless holds the attendance document for a USWNT house pleasant.
Tickets for the sport go on sale to most people this Friday at 10 a.m. There are presale choices accessible for Visa cardholders from 1 p.m. Thursday to eight a.m. Friday and from 10 a.m. Tuesday to eight a.m. Friday by way of U.S. Soccer’s Insiders program.
The sport may even be airing on TNT, truTV and HBO Max in English, on Peacock in Spanish, and on the radio by way of Westwood One Sports activities.