USWNT taking on host nation France in World Cup Quarterfinals

USA vs. France
2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup France – Quarterfinals
June 28, 2019 | 3 p.m. ET
Parc des Princes; Paris, France

USA TACKLES TOURNAMENT HOST FRANCE IN WORLD CUP QUARTERFINALS: After a hard-fought 2-1 victory against rising European power Spain, the U.S. Women’s National Team will return to Paris to face France in the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup quarterfinal (3 p.m. ET; FS1 and Telemundo).

The USA’s mettle was tested against a physical Spain side after forward Jenni Hermoso took advantage of an ill-advised outlet pass to the U.S. backline. However, Spain conceded two penalty kicks and both were converted by U.S. captain Megan Rapinoe. Over its three first round games, the USA set a record for most goals scored in group play with 18 and greatest goal difference (+18) while shutting out all three opponents. The USA and France met earlier this year in the first game of 2019 for both teams with France coming away with a 3-1 win at Stade Ocèane in La Havre on Jan. 19. The quarterfianl match against France will be U.S. head coach Jill Ellis’ 125^th in charge of the USA, giving her the record of most games coached in U.S. history and breaking a tie with April Heinrichs (124).

2019 U.S. WORLD CUP ROSTER (CAPS/GOALS)
GOALKEEPERS (3): Adrianna Franch (Portland Thorns FC; 1/0), Ashlyn Harris (Orlando Pride; 21/0), Alyssa Naeher (Chicago Red Stars; 50/0)

DEFENDERS (7): Abby Dahlkemper (NC Courage; 44/0), Tierna Davidson (Chicago Red Stars; 21/1); Crystal Dunn (NC Courage; 88/24), Ali Krieger(Orlando Pride; 101/1), Kelley O’Hara (Utah Royals FC; 121/2), Becky Sauerbrunn (Utah Royals FC; 161/0), Emily Sonnett (Portland Thorns FC; 34/0)

MIDFIELDERS (6): Morgan Brian (Chicago Red Stars; 83/6), Julie Ertz(Chicago Red Stars; 85/19),Lindsey Horan (Portland Thorns FC; 72/10), Rose Lavelle (Washington Spirit; 30/9), Allie Long(Reign FC; 46/6), Samantha Mewis (NC Courage; 53/14)

FORWARDS (7): Tobin Heath (Portland Thorns FC; 153/30); Carli Lloyd(Sky Blue FC; 278/113),Jessica McDonald (NC Courage; 8/2), Alex Morgan(Orlando Pride; 166/106), Christen Press (Utah Royals FC; 120/48), Mallory Pugh (Washington Spirit; 56/17), Megan Rapinoe (Seattle Reign FC; 156/47)

USA vs. France – Quarterfinal – How They Got Here
USA – 1^st in Group F
Date                  Opponent       Score       Goal Scorers
June 11              Thailand          13-0 W      Morgan (5), Lavelle (2), Horan, Mewis (2), Rapinoe,
Pugh, Lloyd
June 16              Chile                3-0 W        Lloyd (2), Ertz
June 20              Sweden           2-0 W        Horan, Own Goal
June 24              Spain               2-1 W        Rapinoe (2)

France – 1^st in Group A
Date                   Opponent       Score        Goal Scorers
June 7                 South Korea    4-0 W        Renard (2), Le Sommer, Henry
June 12               Norway            2-1 W        Gauvin, Le Sommer
June 17               Nigeria             1-0 W        Ebere
June 23               Brazil               2-1 W        Gauvin, Henry

U.S. WOMEN’S WORLD CUP TEAM FACTS

• World Cup Rosters: Lloyd (4); Krieger (3), O’Hara (3), Sauerbrunn (3), Heath (3), Morgan (3), Rapinoe (3); Harris (2), Naeher (2), Brian (2), Ertz (2), Press (2); Franch (1), Dahlkemper (1), Davidson (1), Dunn (1), Sonnett (1), Horan (1), Lavelle (1), Long (1), Mewis (1), McDonald (1), Pugh (1).
• Of the 23 players named to the roster, Lloyd has the most experience, having played in 22 matches while scoring 10 goals, one in 2011, six at the 2015 tournament and three so far in 2019. Lloyd is the oldest player on the roster at 36 and against Chile became the oldest player to score at least twice in a Women’s World Cup match.
• Five players own double-figure World Cup caps: Lloyd (22) Krieger (14), Morgan (15), Rapinoe (15) Heath (13) and Sauerbrunn (11).
• Sixteen players on the roster have represented the USA in a FIFA WWC at the U-17 level, U-20 level or both.
• Davidson is the youngest player on the roster at age 20. Pugh turned 21 on April 29. Brian was the youngest player on the 2015 World Cup Team at 22. Just under half the roster (11 players) are in their 30s and 12 are in their 20s.
• Allie Long and Jessica McDonald made their first World Cup roster at age 31. Long was a member of the 2016 Olympic Team, and McDonald is the top American scorer in the history of the NWSL. McDonald is also the only mother on the World Cup Team. She has a seven-year-old son.
• The average age of the U.S. roster is just under 29 years old, about the same as the USA’s 2015 Women’s World Cup Team.
• Six players had previously scored in a Women’s World Cup tournament that are on the roster. Four of the seven goal scorers against Thailand made their World Cup scoring debuts. Current all-time World Cup goal scorers on the roster are: Lloyd (10), Morgan (8), Rapinoe (4), Horan (2), Lavelle (2), Mewis (2), Ertz (1), Pugh (1), Heath (1), O’Hara (1), Press (1) and Own Goal (1).
• The roster features players from 13 different states. Five players on the roster are from California, three are from Georgia, while two each are from New York, New Jersey, Arizona and Colorado.
• The roster includes 11 first-time participants, three more than the team that won the World Cup four years ago. This roster is also tied for the third-most rookies among U.S. teams since the Women’s World Cup began in 1991.
• Number of times a team has won all three group stage matches in WWC history:
  o Brazil (Three times – 2007, 2011, 2015)
  o England (Once – 2019)
  o France (Once – 2019)
  o Germany (Four times – 1991, 2003, 2011, 2019)
  o Japan (Once – 2015)
  o Norway (Twice – 1995, 1999)
  o Sweden (Once – 2011)
  o USA (Four times – 1991, 1999, 2003, 2019*)

2019 FIFA WOMEN’S WORLD CUP FACTS

• The 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup kicked off June 7 as host France took on South Korea in Paris and will run through July 7 when the championship game is staged in Lyon.
• Each team is allowed three subs per game in the World Cup and for the first time, the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) will be used for women’s international matches.
• The tournament will mark the eighth consecutive World Cup appearance for three-time World Cup champion USA (1991, 1999, 2015), one of six countries to qualify for all eight Women’s World Cups along with Brazil, Germany, Japan, Norway, Sweden and Nigeria. This will be the second Women’s World Cup to include 24 nations. Sixteen teams participated in the four World Cups held from 1999-2011. The 1991 and 1995 WWC featured 12 teams.
• It will require seven games to win the Women’s World Cup, three in the group stage, a Round of 16 match, a Quarterfinal, a Semifinal and the Final.
• There are only four nations who have women the seven Women’s World Cup tournament: The USA (1991, 1999, 2015), Norway (1995), Germany (2003, 2007) and Japan (2011).
• The 90,185 spectators on hand at the Rose Bowl for the USA’s victory against China PR in the 1999 FIFA Women’s World Cup represent the largest attendance in the tournament’s history. The Stade de Lyon is the largest stadium in this tournament, seating almost 60,000 fans.
• Abby Wambach’s 14 goals in FIFA Women’s World Cup competition rank second all-time, tied with Germany legend Birgit Prinz. They trail only Brazil’s Marta who has a World Cup-record 17 goals.
• After the win vs. Spain, the U.S. WNT is now 37-4-6 all-time in the Women’s World Cup, outscoring its opponents 132-36 in 47 games. The 37 wins, 47 games-played and 132 goals scored are all FIFA Women’s World Cup records.
• The United States is the only nation to make it past the quarterfinal match as host of the World Cup.

ONE NATION. ONE TEAM. 23 STORIES: As the U.S. team readies for the final group game of the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup, get to know each player through U.S. Soccer’s “One Nation. One Team. 23 Stories.” series, presented by Volkswagen. Sprinkled with humor, fun and a few heartfelt stories, the videos give fans insight into the players’ personalities, families, motivations, and some of the challenges they’ve experienced on the different roads they’ve traveled to earn the right to represent the United States in the ultimate competition for a soccer player.

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JILL ELLIS FACT FILE : Jill Ellis is the third U.S. coach – and first female American coach – to win a Women’s World Cup (2015) at the senior level, following Anson Dorrance (1991) and the late Tony DiCicco (1999). Ellis was named the 2015 FIFA World Coach of the Year for Women’s Soccer on Jan. 11, 2016. She was also named the Concacaf Female Coach of the Year. Ellis, who previously served two stints as interim head coach of the U.S. WNT, is the eighth official head coach in U.S. history. She coached seven games as interim coach in 2012 (5-0-2) and two games (1-0-1) as interim in 2014 before she officially came on board, which gave her a 6-0-3 record before she ever was formally named the head coach in May of 2014. She has gone 93-7-15 since then for an overall record of 99-7-18. She earned her 75th career win on April 8 vs. Mexico and with the victory against Belgium on April 7, moved ahead of Pia Sundhage (91) in all-time wins, and now trails only Tony DiCicco (105). The match against Australia on July 29, 2018, marked her 100th game on the bench for the USA, making her the fourth coach in U.S. history to coach in 100 or more games. With the match against Spain on June 24, her 124th on the bench for the USA, she has tied with April Heinrichs (124) for most games U.S. WNT games coached. Since taking over as head coach, Ellis has won seven tournaments: the 2015 Algarve Cup, the 2015 Women’s World Cup, the 2016 CONCACAF Women’s Olympic Qualifying Championship, the 2016 SheBelieves Cup, the 2018 SheBelieves Cup, the 2018 Tournament of Nations and the 2018 Concacaf Women’s Championship.

U.S. ROSTER NOTES
TEAM

• The U.S. Women’s National Team reached an impressive milestone on Nov. 8, 2018 with its 1-0 victory against Portugal; that was the 500th win in program history. Since its inception in 1985, the U.S. WNT has compiled a record of 512 wins, 66 losses and 76 ties. Over the history of the program, the USA has gone 288-28-22 (88% winning percentage) at home, 52-14-17 away (73%) and 172-33-28 (81%) on neutral ground. Of the USA’s 66 losses, 12 (18%) came at the Algarve Cup in Portugal.
• The USA has scored in 42 consecutive matches and has averaged more than three goals per game in that time. Since the end of the 2015 World Cup, the USA has played 85 matches and complied a 71-5-9 record.
• Ten different players have scored the USA’s 49 goals this year. Alex Morgan and Carli Lloyd lead the team with eight goals each. Samantha Mewis, Tobin Heath and Megan Rapinoe have six goals each and Mallory Pugh has five. Rose Lavelle has three, Christen Press and Lindsey Horan have two and Jessica McDonald and Julie Ertz have one each. The USA has benefited from one own goal.
• Lloyd has 49 WNT goals since the start of 2015. Morgan (57) is the only other player with more than 30 goals over the four years.

FORWARDS

• Alex Morgan had a performance for the ages against Thailand in the opening game of the World Cup, tying a World Cup record with five goals while adding three assists. The five scores upped her career total to 106 and within one goal of tying Michelle Akers for fifth on the USA’s all-time goals list.
• She was rested in the second Group F match vs. Chile and came out at halftime of the third group match against Sweden after suffering a knock on a bad tackle.
• She saw most of the Round of 16 match against Spain but was subbed out in the 85^th minute.
• She achieved a historic 100th career goal on April 4 vs. Australia. Morgan’s 100th goal came in her 159th cap. Just three more than it took Mia Hamm (156 caps). Abby Wambach scored her 100th goal in her 129th cap, Michelle Akers in 130th, Milbrett in her 201st, Carli Lloyd in her 252nd and Kristine Lilly in 287th.
• Morgan has scored 33 goals over her last 38 WNT matches, a span that runs from the end of 2017. During that 33-goal streak, she has scored on about a quarter of her shots, scoring 10 goals with her right foot, 18 with her left, four with her head and one with her chest. The 33 goals have included six braces, one hat trick and one five-goal game.
• Morgan has scored in 72 career games for the USA and in those matches, the U.S. team has never lost, going 62-0-10. Morgan is one of only three players in U.S. history with 40 or more goals who has never lost a game in which she has scored (Heather O’Reilly and Tisha Venturini are the others), but all 13 players who have scored 40 or more goals have a winning percentage that is equal to or higher than Morgan’s 93 percent.
• Morgan is third all-time in two-goal games (22), behind only Wambach (37) and Hamm (28). With her hat trick against Japan on July 26, 2018, the fourth of her career, and her five-goal game on June 11, Morgan moves ahead of Michelle Akers for third all-time in multi-goal games (27) behind only Abby Wambach (45) and Mia Hamm (38).
• Morgan’s second goal vs. Jamaica on Oct. 14 was just the second of her international career to come via a penalty kick. Abby Wambach scored 16 of her 184 goals on PKs. Mia Hamm scored five of her 158 goals off PKs.
• For players with more than 50 goals/assists combined, Morgan has averaged a goal or an assist for every 70.8 minutes on the field in her international career. The only player who has done better is Hamm (68.5). Wambach averaged a goal or assist for every 71.5 minutes. Akers finished her career at 74.0 minutes per goal or assist.
• Since opening her account in 2010 against China, Morgan has scored against 28 different teams – none more than Japan (12 goals). She has scored nine goals against Canada and Mexico and six against Costa Rica, France, New Zealand, Sweden and Trinidad & Tobago.
• Morgan famously scored in both the semifinal and championship games of the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Germany at her first senior World Cup and scored once in Canada at the 2015 Women’s World Cup, that goal coming against Colombia in the Round of 16 during a tournament in which she was working her way back from injury.
• Morgan (who has eight World Cup goals) needs two goals to become the 11th player (and fourth American) to score 10 goals at the World Cup. Only two other countries have more than one, Germany (3) and Brazil (2).
• After her brace of PKs against Spain in the Knockout Round on June 24, Megan Rapinoe has 47 career goals, which moves her into 13th place on the all-time U.S. scoring list past Julie Foudy and into a tie with Heather O’Reilly and Tisha Veturini for 12th place all-time.
• Rapinoe holds six career World Cup goals and at 33 years, 341 days old, she is the third-oldest American goal scorer in WWC history, behind only Abby Wambach (35 years, 15 days) and Kristine Lilly (36 years, 62 days).
• She was rested against Chile in the USA’s second Group F match but played most of the match against Sweden and set up the USA’s first goal with her corner kick service.
• Rapinoe had a team-leading 12 assists in 2018 and after getting two vs. Thailand, has 59 assists for her career, moving her to sole possession of sixth place on the U.S. all-time list. Rapinoe’s 59 assists in 155 caps is the best ratio of anyone ahead of her on the all-time list except for Hamm, who had a remarkable 147 assists in her 276 caps. Seven of Rapinoe’s 12 assists last year were on Alex Morgan goals and she set up one of Morgan’s five scores against Thailand with the other going to Samantha Mewis.
• Carli Lloyd is a two-time FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year (2015 & 2016) and the USA’s all-time active caps leader with 278. With her substitute appearance against Sweden on June 20, moved past Mia Hamm into third all-time in career caps.
• Lloyd’s goal off the bench against Thailand and two against Chile in her first start of this World Cup in gave her 10 career WWC goals, moving her past Mia Hamm, Kristine Lilly and Alex Morgan (all with 8) for the third-most by an American. She now has 113 for her career.
• Lloyd has now become the first player to score in six consecutive appearances at the Women’s World Cup. She’s scored eight goals across those six games, the last four of 2015 and the first two of 2019.
• Lloyd scored her historic 100th goal on April 8, 2018 vs. Mexico to become the sixth player to score 100 or more for the USA, and first since 2009 when Abby Wambach scored her 100th.
• On Oct. 7, 2018 vs. Panama at World Cup qualifying, Lloyd scored her eighth career hat trick.
• With the hat trick in World Cup qualifying, Lloyd tied Mia Hamm for most three-goals games all-time in WNT history. Hamm also had two four-goal games in her career. Lloyd has moved ahead of Kristine Lilly and Cindy Parlow into fourth all-time in multi-goal games with 20.
• Against Panama, Lloyd (36 years, 83 days) became the oldest player to score a hat trick for the U.S. WNT. She broke Wambach’s record of 34 years, 186 days. Kristine Lilly is the oldest player to score a goal for the USA at 38 years, 264 days.
• Against Chile, at 36 years, 11 months old, Lloyd became the oldest ever player to score more than once in a single Women’s World Cup game, overtaking Cristiane’s record set in this year’s tournament for Brazil against Jamaica (34 years, 25 days).
• Lloyd is the highest active goal scorer in U.S. history with the players ahead of or tied with her – Hamm, Wambach, Lilly, Akers and Tiffeny Milbrett – all retired.
• Lloyd scored 36 international goals between the time she debuted six days before her 23rd birthday, and her 30th birthday. Since turning 30, she has scored 77 goals in 142 games over a span of almost seven years. The 142 games after the age of 30 is the second-most all-time in U.S. history in that category. Christie Rampone is far and away the leader with 175.
• After earning the assist on Mallory Pugh’s goal against Mexico on May 26, Lloyd has 53 career assists and is tied for 8th place all-time with Shannon MacMillan.
• Tobin Heath scored twice in the 2019 SheBelieves Cup, against England and Brazil, bagged a header goal against Australia on April 4, scored against New Zealand on May 16 and then again against Mexico on May 26, giving her 30 career international goals. She earned her 150th cap against Mexico to become the 22nd U.S. female player to hit that mark.
• In 2018, Heath didn’t return to the U.S. lineup until June 12 after completing her long recovery from injury, but she was on fire for the rest of the year, scoring seven goals with six assists in just 10 games and 657 minutes. She averaged a goal or an assist for every 50 minutes on the field in the latter part of the year. She picked up her first assist of the year, and 36th of her career, on Rapinoe’s goal against Japan on Feb. 27.
• Heath has 12 goals in her last 21 matches and 10 in her last 16. The 12 goals are 40% of her career total.
• She was rested against Chile on June 16 and played 90 minutes against Sweden, appearing to score against at the beginning of the second half, but the goal was later changed to an Own Goal after it deflected off a Sweden defender and into the net.
• Heath saw the full 90 minutes of play against Spain in the Round of 16 on June 24.
• Mallory Pugh doubled her career goals in 2018, finding the net six times, and scored the USA’s first goal of 2019 against France on Jan. 19. She had a spectacular brace on April 4 against Australia in front of her hometown crowd. It was the second-two goal game of her career. Pugh scored 37 seconds after entering the match vs. Australia in the 66th, her shortest time on the field before scoring in her WNT career.
• Pugh was the fifth different USWNT player to record a brace off the bench since 2015.
• Off the bench against Thailand on June 11 she netted her 16th, scoring in her Word Cup debut and becoming the third-youngest goal scorer in a WWC match in U.S. history.
• She made her first career World Cup start in the match against Chile on June 16 and came off the bench late against Sweden on June 20.
• Pugh scored in her senior team debut (the 19th U.S. WNT player to score in her first cap) on Jan. 23, 2016, vs. Ireland at 17 years, 8 months and 25 days old, becoming the youngest player to debut for the U.S. in the previous 11 years. Since then, she has earned 52 total caps and has been one of the USA’s most dangerous players, mostly attacking from the wings.
• After coming off the bench against Japan on Feb. 27 and almost immediately creating a goal for Alex Morgan, Christen Press then put in impactful substitute performances on March 2 against England, March 5 against Brazil and April 4 against Australia. She got the start in front of her hometown crowd on April 7 vs. Belgium in a game that saw her tally three assists, started against South Africa on May 12, came off the bench to set up two goals against New Zealand on May 16, and then came off the bench at halftime on May 26 vs. Mexico and scored a spectacular goal.
• She came off the bench against Thailand and once again caused havoc, picking up the assist on Alex Morgan’s third goal. Against Chile, she was unfortunate not to score multiple goals as she was the victim of several world class saves from Chile goalkeeper Christiane Endler. After her substitute performance against Spain, Press now has 120 caps, 48 career goals and 30 career assists. Press is among 30 other U.S. Women’s National Team players to achieve 120 international appearances. She also leads the USA in assists this year with seven. She is tied for 11th place on the all-time WNT goals list.
• Forward Jessica McDonald‘s first career cap came against Romania on Nov. 10, 2016, in San Jose, Calif. She earned her second career cap and start vs. Portugal on Nov. 8 and scored the game-winning goal – her first international score. She also played off the bench against Scotland on Nov. 13 and against France on Jan. 19, earning her third cap. McDonald, came off the bench to score her second career goal, tallying the sixth score in the 6-0 win vs. Belgium on April 7. With 42 career NWSL goals, McDonald is the second all-time leading scorer in league history behind Aussie Sam Kerr.
• At the age of 31, she made her World Cup debut on June 16 against Chile, coming off the bench at halftime and almost scored, curling a shot off the right post.

MIDFIELDERS

• Julie Ertz was named the MVP of the 2018 Concacaf Women’s Championship while playing the entire tournament at defensive midfielder. She scored against Jamaica in the CWC semifinal on Oct. 14, and in group play against Mexico on Oct. 4, and scored her first World Cup goal on June 16 against Chile to up her career goal total to an impressive 19 international goals in 84 caps as has become one of the USA’s most important players.
• She played the first half against Chile before being rested and sat out the match against Sweden due to precautionary reasons with a small injury but returned to play the full match against Spain on June 24.
• Rose Lavelle is coming off her World Cup debut in which she scored twice against Thailand, her second career brace. She her first career brace against T&T on Oct. 10 during group play at the 2018 Concacaf Women’s Championship. She also scored the game-winning goal in the title game, a 2-0 victory against Canada, and with three goals in the qualifying tournament, doubled her career total coming into the competition. She now has 29 caps – with 24 starts – and nine goals. She was rested against Chile on June 16 and got the start against Sweden before leaving in the 63^rd minute. She was a key player in the USA’s 2-1 win over Spain and was subbed out in the 89^th minute.
• Lindsey Horan excelled with the WNT as a consistent starter in 2018 (only Alex Morgan had more starts, but two other players also had 16) and scored three goals. She also had eight assists in 2018, second-most on the team.
• After starting the first two games of the year, both in Europe, she missed the SheBelieves Cup with a quad injury but returned to make an impact in every match since. She made her World Cup debut against Thailand and scored her first World Cup goal, giving her nine career goals, and got the start against Chile on June 16 as she returned to Paris where she started her professional career with PSG, and against Sweden on June 20, when she scored her second World Cup goal and the quickest of the tournament thus far when she tallied in just the 3^rd minute.
• Currently at 53 caps, Samantha Mewis has put in some recent excellent performances this year as reserve and a starter. She got her first World Cup start and first two World Cup goals against Thailand and played a tremendous match against Sweden and Spain. She is tied for third on the U.S. team in goals this year with six.
• She got the start against Belgium on April 7 and scored, bagged her second career brace in the May 12 match vs. South Africa, and had a nice finish from distance on May 16 vs. NZL. She now has 14 career goals and six goals in her last five games after eight in her first 43 matches for the WNT.
• Mewis was rested against Chile on June 16, but saw action for the entire duration of the USA’s Round of 16 match vs. Spain.
• Veteran Allie Long saw her first World Cup action against Chile on June 16, coming off the bench in the second half. She scored her first three career goals (all on headers) in 2016. She scored her fourth and fifth goals, also off headers, vs. Russia on April 6, 2017. It was the second brace of her career. She finally got a WNT goal with her feet on Oct. 22 vs. Korea Republic, slotting home a pass from Horan, and now has 45 caps after most recent appearances off the bench vs. Australia on April 4, Belgium on April 7, South Africa on May 12, New Zealand on May 16 and Mexico on May 26.
• Morgan Brian returned to fitness just in time make her second Women’s World Cup Team. She played in 12 games in 2018, starting seven, but had played in just one match this year, going 90 minutes in the first game of the year against France, before getting the start and playing 90 against Chile on June 16. She has 83 career caps and six goals at 26-years-old.

DEFENDERS

• With her start against France on Jan. 19, Becky Sauerbrunn became the 20th player, and just the third player who has played exclusively defender, to play 150 times for the WNT. She currently has 161 caps and since 2014 has started 106 of her 111 caps.
• She was held out of the World Cup opener on June 11 due to a minor quad issue but returned to play 90 minutes in the matches against Chile on June 16, Sweden on June 20 and Spain on June 24.
• Abby Dahlkemper played in 17 games last year, starting 16, and played the full 90 in 12 of them. She has played full 90s in 10 of 13 games this year, only coming off at the very end of the Australia match on April 4, coming on at halftime of the April 7 game vs. Belgium, coming off at halftime of the May 12 vs. South Africa and leaving the game in the 82^nd minute against Chile on June 16. She has played the most minutes of any U.S. player through the first four games with 352. She has started 39 of her 44 caps and played her first World Cup match on June 11 vs. Thailand.
• Crystal Dunn solidified her spot as an outside back for the USA in 2018, a position where she played the final 16 of her 18 caps last year. She has played a bit in the midfield but put in a solid shift at left back in her first World Cup match on June 11 vs. Thailand. Dunn, who has consistently shown her excellent attacking abilities from outside back, has 24 career international goals. She was rested against Chile on June 16 but returned to the lineup against Sweden and Spain to play the full 90.
• Kelley O’Hara picked up her second World Cup start on June 11 against Thailand (her first came in 2015) and earned the assist on the first goal. She now has 120 caps and 16 career assists to go along with two goals, one of which was scored in the 2015 World Cup semifinal vs. Germany. She was rested against Chile on June 16 but returned to play both games vs. Sweden and Spain.
• Tierna Davidson made her World Cup debut in style on June 16 against Chile, playing all 90 minutes at left back and earning two assists on corner kicks. She was the first defender since at least 2011 with multiple assists in a WWC match. At age 20, she is youngest U.S. player to start a World Cup match since Tiffany Roberts in 1995.
• Davidson helped lead Stanford to the NCAA Championship in 2017 as a sophomore and was a consistent U.S. WNT call-up in 2018 as the youngest player on the roster. She started and played the entire 90 minutes to earn her first cap in the 5-1 victory against Denmark on Jan. 21 in a game where she picked up the game-winning assist on Julie Ertz’ goal.
• Against Chile on Aug. 31, 2018, Davidson scored her only career goal, via a header off a Tobin Heath corner kick
• Davidson was injured early in her junior season in 2018 with Stanford and did not play again. This past December, she decided to leave college a year early, declaring for the 2019 NWSL Draft, and was taken #1 overall by the Chicago Red Stars, making her the sixth consecutive U.S. WNT player drafted #1.
• Davidson is the third teenager since 2013 to earn a first cap for the WNT. Mallory Pugh (17 in 2016) and Lindsey Horan (19 in 2013) are the most recent teenagers to debut for the WNT.
• Emily Sonnett made her World Cup debut against Chile on June 16, coming off the bench to earn her 34^thcap and has shown her consistent abilities this year at right back. She played a solid match against France on Jan. 19, against Spain on Jan. 22 when she played the first half and against Japan on Feb. 27 when she played the second half. She came off the bench in the second half of the SBC match vs. Brazil and helped secure the shutout. Against Australia on April 4, the started and played 79 minutes, picking up assists on two of the five goals – to Tobin Heath and Mallory Pugh – which were the second and third of her career. She played the final 20 minutes off the bench against Mexico on May 26 in the USA’s World Cup Send-Off Match.
• The Portland Thorns standout played in three games at World Cup qualifying and has shown her versatility to play outside back with the WNT and center back in the NWSL. Against the Aussies, Sonnett became just the second WNT defender over the last three years with multiple assists in a match.
• Veteran Ali Krieger, a member of the USA’s 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup Team and the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup championship squad as well as the 2016 Olympic Team, returned to the roster during the April matches for the first time since the 2017 Tournament of Nations, where she did not see action. Her start and 90 minutes against Belgium on April marked her first game since an appearance against Russia in April of 2017. Krieger earned her 100th cap on May 16 against New Zealand as she came off the bench at halftime and became the 38th U.S. WNT player to hit 100 games.
• She played in her 14th World Cup match, and earned her first start of this World Cup, against Chile on June 16, going the entire 90 minutes at right back.

GOALKEEPERS

• Alyssa Naeher has 27 career shutouts in her 50 caps. Naeher earned 13 caps in 2017 and 16 in 2018. After the matchup against Spain in Round of 16, she became the fourth goalkeeper in U.S. history to earn 50 or more caps.
• Naeher had an assist against Australia on April 4. She is the first U.S. ‘keeper to record an assist since Hope Solo did in July of 2012 against France on an Alex Morgan goal in the opening game of the Olympics.
• Veteran Ashlyn Harris has 21 caps, earning her most recent vs. Belgium on April 7 as she came off the bench at halftime. Against Brazil on March 5 she played very well while going 90 minutes to earn the shutout and made several important plays in the match. It was her seventh career shutout.
• Adrianna Franch earned her first WNT cap against England on March 2. She became the 27th player earn her first cap during this cycle (post-WWC 2015). She has been getting call-ups to the senior side since 2012 after she was a member of the USA’s 2010 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup Team. More recently, she trained with the USA to add support to the goalkeeper corps during the entire Concacaf Women’s Championship and has seen training time with the WNT on-and-off for the past five years.

IN FOCUS: France
FIFA World Ranking: 4
UEFA Ranking: 3
Women’s World Cup Appearances: 4 – 2003, 2011, 2015, 2019
Best Women’s World Cup finish: Fourth place (2011)
Record vs. USA: 3-17-3
 Head Coach: Corinne Diacre

FRANCE WOMEN’S WORLD CUP ROSTER BY POSITION
GOALKEEPERS (3): 1-Solene Durand (EA Guingamp (FRA), 16-Sarah Bouhaddi (Olympique Lyon (FRA), 21-Pauline Peyraud-Magnin (Arsenal WFC (ENG)

DEFENDERS (8): 2-Eve Perisset (Paris Saint-Germain FC (FRA), 3-Wendie Renard (Olympique Lyon (FRA), 4-Marion Torrent (Montpellier HSC (FRA), 5-Aissatou Tounkara (Atlético Madrid (ESP), 7-Sakina Karchaoui (Montpellier HSC (FRA), 10-Amel Majri (Olympique Lyon (FRA), 19-Griedge Mbock Bathy (Olympique Lyon (FRA), 22-Julie Debever (EA Guingamp (FRA)

MIDFIELDERS (6): 6-Amandine Henry (Olympique Lyon (FRA), 8-Grace Geyoro (Paris Saint-Germain FC (FRA), 14-Charlotte Bilbault (Paris FCF (FRA), 15-Elise Bussaglia (Dijon FCO (FRA), 17-Gaetane Thiney (Paris FCF (FRA), 23-Maeva Clémaron (FC Fleury 91 (FRA)

FORWARDS (6): 9-Eugenie Le Sommer (Olympique Lyon (FRA), 11-Kadidiatou Diani (Paris Saint-Germain FC (FRA), 12-Emelyne Laurent (EA Guingamp (FRA), 13-Valerie Gauvin (Montpellier HSC (FRA), 18-Viviane Asseyi (Girondins Bordeaux (FRA), 20-Delphine Cascarino (Olympique Lyon (FRA)

USA VS. FRANCE

• Several U.S. players have experience in France. Lindsey Horan played with and against many of the French players while playing with Paris Saint-Germain. Horan lived and played in Paris for three-and-half years. Alex Morgan played for three months for Olympique Lyon in 2017, helping the club to the League, Cup and Champions League title. Morgan Brian also had a brief stint with Lyon in 2018.
• Megan Rapinoe played in Lyon over 2013-2014 while Tobin Heath did a short stint for PSG during a six-month period in 2013.
• Alex Morgan has six career goals against France, one in the World Cup, two in the Olympics, one in the SheBelieves Cup and two in a friendly match.
• Carli Lloyd has two goals against France, one each at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics.
• Over the last five matches vs. France, the U.S. has scored one goal in four of them and zero in the other. Since the beginning of 2015, only Alex Morgan (1 goal), Carli Lloyd (1) and Mallory Pugh (2) have scored against Les Bleues.
• Despite only facing off against Les Bleues four time in France (2-2-0), the U.S. has played in France seven times, compiling a record of 5-2 with the both losses coming to France (2015, 2091). The U.S. first played in France in 1991 (two games) and again in 1995 (three games) before a long hiatus passed until the visit in 2015.
• The USA is 17-3-3 all-time against France, but the last eight games following the meeting at the 2012 Olympics have produced a 4-3-2 record for the USA as France has risen into the world’s elite.
• The USA’s first loss to France came on Feb. 8, 2015, a 2-0 setback in Lorient, France that kicked off the 2015 schedule for both teams. The USA avenged the loss with a 2-0 victory in the championship game of the 2015 Algarve Cup in Portugal as Julie Ertz (neé Johnston) and Christen Press scored. The USA’s second loss came at the 2017 SheBelieves Cup, while the third took place in the teams’ first match of 2019, a 3-1 U.S. defeat in Le Havre on Jan. 19.
• The USA and France also met at the 2018 SheBelieves Cup, a 1-1 draw in an evenly-played game that saw a few quality chances for both teams in what was a tight match. Mallory Pugh scored for the USA in the 35th minute while Eugénie Le Sommer scored for France just four minutes later.
• Twenty-one of the 26 U.S. players included on the roster that traveled to France earlier this year are on the U.S. World Cup roster, including 10 who started at Stade Ocèane.
• For France, 12 of the 13 players who played against the USA in January are on their WWC roster, including all 11 starters and one substitute. Overall, 19 of France’s 23-player January roster are in their WWC squad.
• The USA played France twice in 2016, winning 1-0 each time, at the SheBelieves Cup on March 6 in Nashville, Tenn., on a goal in second half stoppage time from Alex Morgan, and then in group play of the 2016 Olympics in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, on a goal from Carli Lloyd.
• The USA and France also faced each other twice in June 2014, a 1-0 U.S. victory in Tampa, Florida, on a goal from Sydney Leroux and a 2-2 draw in East Hartford, Connecticut, as Alex Morgan scored both goals, equalizing twice to cancel out scores from Louisa Necib (on a penalty kick) and Amandine Henry.
• Before those games, there came an epic pair of matches in world championships. The USA defeated France 3-1 on July 13, 2011, in the FIFA Women’s World Cup semifinal in Monchengladbach, Germany. The U.S. also won the Olympic curtain raiser 4-2 on July 25, 2012, in Glasgow, Scotland, as the USA came back from a 2-0 deficit with Alex Morgan scoring twice, and Abby Wambach and Carli Lloyd contributing a goal each.
• Before the 2-2 draw in 2014, the first tie between the teams came at the Four Nations Tournament in Guangzhou, China, in 2006, a 0-0 draw.
• Despite first playing France in 1988, the U.S. Women have played just 23 times and only 11 times after a 2006 meeting at the Algarve Cup in Portugal.

FRANCE NOTES:

• France won Group A at the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup, defeating Korea Republic (4-0), Norway (2-1) and Nigeria (1-0, in that order. France opened the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Paris at Parc des Princes, the site of the quarterfinal showdown with the USA.
• Les Bleues needed extra time to get pat Brazil in the Round of 16, winning 2-1 thanks to Amandine Henry’s 107^th-minute winner.
• So far in the World Cup, Les Bleues are 4-0-0, having outscored their opponents 9-2 with only four players (Le Sommer, Renard, Henry and Gauvin) accounting for all nine goals, five of which have come from set pieces.
• Although several veterans and other top talents have retired since the last World Cup, France has some highly experienced players including Thiney, who plays for Paris FC and a dynamic forward in Le Sommer of Olympique Lyon. They are France’s main scoring threats, having combined for more than 120 international goals.
• Towering center back Wendie Renard is one of the most dangerous players in the world on set plays having already scored from one in the 2019 WWC.
• Goalkeeper Sarah Bouhaddi is the long-time starter. She was France’s starter in the 2015 World Cup and 2016 Olympics.
• Like the USA, France has been in transition with some younger players who have come up through the youth National Team ranks, including: defender Griedge M’bock Bathy, defender Grace Geyoro, defender Aissatou Tounkara and midfielder Kadidiatou Diani. All were all major parts of the France team that won the 2012 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup. Diani scored four times in the tournament and M’bock Bathy once.
• Since the start of 2017, France has lost just four times. Two losses came against England at the 2017 Euros (1-0), and the 2018 SheBelieves Cup (4-1), while the other two were against Germany in a friendly in Germany on Nov. 20, 2017, a 4-0 setback and the 1-0 defeat in Laval in Les Bleues second match of 2019.
• France has seven players on its roster from two-time UEFA Women’s Champions League champs Olympique Lyon, which is once again finished atop the Division 1 Feminine. Those are former Portland Thorns midfielder Amandine Henry, who helped the Thorns to the 2017 NWSL title, GK Sarah Bouhaddi, defenders Amel Majri, Griedge Mbock Bathyand Renard as well as forwards Delphine Cascarinoand Le Sommer. Three other clubs:EA Guingamp, Paris Saint-Germaine and Montpellier all have three players each in the side.
• France’s head coach is former star player Corinne Diacre. She debuted for France at the age of 18 and compiled 121 caps for Les Bleus. She played in the 2003 FIFA Women’s World Cup and the 1997, 2001 and 2005 European Championships, where she was the team captain.
• Diacre gained some worldwide notoriety when she took over as the coach of the French men’s professional club, Clermont Foot, in 2014. She coached the Ligue 2 side until 2017 when she took over the France Women’s National Team and is charged with the large and important task of leading her home country through the Women’s World Cup on home soil.
• Diacre called up players from nine different French clubs – as well as Atletico Madrid in Spain and Arsenal in England – reflecting her philosophy of expanding the French player pool in order to compete for the title at the 2019 Women’s World Cup.
• Les Bleues have lost only once in France since the beginning of 2016, compiling a record of 31-1-3 at home over that time. After defeating the USA in Le Havre to open 2019, France lost 1-0 to Germany in Laval, but since then have gone on a nine game win streak, outscoring opponents 27-4.
• France ended 2018 on a seven-game win streak in which they outscored their opponents, 27-1.
• In 2018, France saw 15 players get on the scoresheet, led by Eugénie Le Sommer’s nine goals. Gaëtane Thiney had five assists to go along with three goals. Thiney was one of three French players with multiple assists and the only player with more than two.