US nationwide workforce captain Becky Sauerbrunn has a proper foot harm that can hold her out of the Ladies’s World Cup subsequent month.
Sauerbrunn took to social media on Friday night, saying: “Heartbroken isn’t even the half of it.”
“I had hoped and labored and hoped some extra to make it again in time to assist lead the workforce at this World Cup, however after a lot of dialogue, sadly, there’s simply an excessive amount of variability in my return to play timeline,” she wrote. “So, I’ll be house, working as laborious as I can to get again on the sector as rapidly as I can.”
The US ladies’s nationwide workforce is predicted to unveil its 23-player roster for the World Cup subsequent week. The 2-time defending World Cup champions will play a send-off match in opposition to Wales in San Jose on 9 July earlier than departing for the match, co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand.
The US, winner of 4 World Cups total, open the World Cup with a match in opposition to Vietnam on 22 July in Auckland.
The lack of Sauerbrunn is a blow to the workforce. The 38-year-old defender is taken into account among the many high gamers on the planet at middle again and anchored the backline for the World Cup champions in 2015 and 2019.
Sauerbrunn, who performs professionally for the Portland Thorns within the Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League, initially damage her foot in April. She briefly was a substitute in a 3 June match in opposition to the Reign, however hasn’t performed since. The character of the harm has not been made public.
Sauerbrunn has performed for the senior nationwide workforce since 2008, showing in three whole World Cups. She additionally received a gold medal on the 2012 London Olympics and a bronze on the Tokyo Video games in 2021.
“It’s been an honor to work and play alongside this unbelievable group of athletes,” Sauerbrunn wrote. “They’ve my unwavering help. And, extra importantly, they’ve my unyielding perception. This program has at all times been in regards to the collective and I’ve little question that the twenty-three gamers on the ultimate roster have every little thing they want – of their ft, their heads and their hearts – to convey our fifth trophy house.”
The US have been hit with accidents forward of the World Cup. Ahead Mallory Swanson had surgical procedure after injuring her left knee throughout an April exhibition match in opposition to Eire. Fellow ahead Catarina Macario just lately introduced that she would miss the World Cup after tearing her ACL enjoying for her membership workforce in France final 12 months.
