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Twila Kilgore departs U.S. Women’s National Team coaching staff
Kilgore previously served as interim head coach.
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USWNT: Boxx in, Dunn out as Ellis unveils Women’s World Cup roster ahead of schedule
With 55 days until the USA's opening match of the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, U.S. Women's National Team head coach Jill Ellis has named the 23 players who will represent the United States on women's soccer's biggest stage, and her predictably veteran-heavy squad featured only a few mild surprises.
USWNT cruises to 4-0 win over New Zealand
In front of a record crowd of 35,817 fans that packed Busch Stadium, the U.S. Women's National Team cruised to a 4-0 victory against New Zealand in its first match on home soil this year.
USWNT ramps up final run toward World Cup against New Zealand
The U.S. Women’s National Team will begin a run of four domestic matches leading into the Women’s World Cup when it faces New Zealand on April 4 at Busch Stadium in St. Louis.
U.S. U-17 WNT heads to San Diego for training camp with U-16 GNT
The U.S. Under-17 Women’s National Team, under head coach B.J. Snow, will hold a training camp from April 6-13 at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif. Snow has called up 24 players for the event that will be held in conjunction with a U.S. U-16 Girls’ National Team camp.
Dure: Will Twitter and TMZ swamp women’s soccer?
When the U.S. Women’s National Team burst into public consciousness in the 1996 Olympics and 1999 Women’s World Cup, it did so in a nation whose general population and media really didn’t know what to make of them. What we made of them were heroes. But times have changed, and the heroes of the national team are sometimes antiheroes instead, writes Beau Dure.
Ellis names 25-player USWNT roster for April 4 match against New Zealand
U.S. Women's National Team head coach Jill Ellis has named a 25-player roster that will train in Los Angeles for a week before traveling to St. Louis for the USA's first domestic match of the year against New Zealand on April 4 at Busch Stadium. Ellis will name 18 players to suit up for that game.
Is everything going to be fine now that the USWNT won Algarve Cup? Well…
Last week the USWNT knocked off France to win the 2015 Algarve Cup, good news for a side that surely needed some, and will presumably a confidence boost for U.S. players and coach Jill Ellis as the team heads into the run-up to this summer’s World Cup. Does this result show that the USWNT has (finally) begun to resolve some of their problems? Not necessarily, says SoccerWire's Mark Shawhan.
USWNT: SoccerWire’s Mark Shawhan curates a conversation on Algarve Cup
The U.S. Women's National Team won the Algarve Cup tournament with a 2-0 win over France in Portugal on Wednesday, but the their Women's World Cup prospects remain far from certain. Even after many months and matches under Ellis' regime, many of the same issues linger doggedly, frustrating fans and clouding the team's true outlook. SoccerWire.com columnist Mark Shawhan took part in some spirited conversations about the topic on Twitter. Here is a selection of those tweets, compiled by Shawhan on Storify.
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Raising Tomorrow’s Champions: Joanna Lohman, Paul Tukey pen road map for USWNT dreamers
Review of Joanna Lohman and Paul Tukey's book.
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