The U.S. will meet Brazil at SoFi Stadium in an April pleasant that would be the first girls’s skilled sporting occasion within the four-year-old stadium. The sport additionally will probably be a rematch of the groups’ Olympic gold-medal sport final August in Paris.
The match will probably be a part of a take a look at of the natural-grass carpet system the stadium will use for the , when eight video games will probably be performed at SoFi. The venue’s synthetic Matrix Turf floor will probably be lined with grass for 4 video games of the CONCACAF Nations League finals March 20 to 23, then will stay in place for the U.S.-Brazil sport, which will probably be performed April 5.
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The U.S. will meet Brazil once more on April 8 at PayPal Park in San José. The People, who beat Brazil 1-0 in France to win their fifth Olympic title, are unbeaten in 15 matches below new coach .
“To play the first-ever girls’s skilled match at SoFi Stadium is a superb honor and one worthy of this group,” Hayes stated in a press release. “We’re very a lot wanting ahead to spending this journey in California, which has produced so many gamers for the U.S. girls’s nationwide group and so many nice moments in our historical past.”
Hayes and her group will start the brand new yr in California, gathering for a coaching camp Jan. 15 to 21 at Dignity Well being Sports activities Park. The camp will probably be held facet by facet with a “Futures” camp, principally an all-star group of up-and-coming youth nationwide group gamers together with just a few high, younger NWSL gamers. As a result of the camp won’t be held throughout a FIFA worldwide break, the group’s high European-based gamers won’t take part.
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