The United States women's national team will enter the 2023 World Cup with another notable injury.
USWNT captain and center back Becky Sauerbrunn will miss the tournament in Australia and New Zealand due to a foot injury sustained in April, according toThe development will cost the team one of its longest-tenured players and a key defensive presence. Sauerbrunn is the team's active leader in caps with 207 and has appeared in the last three World Cups, winning titles in 2015 and 2019. She was also part of the team's gold medal-winning team in 2012.
In Sauerbrunn's absence, the USWNT has a few veterans it could turn to as options to carry the armband. Alex Morgan, Meg Rapinoe and Kelley O'Hara all have more than a decade of national team experience and will be on the World Cup roster — O'Hara wasn't a lock but The Athletic reports she has made the team — but Morgan seems likely to get the nod as a projected starter.
The team will also likely now feature the duo of Alana Cook and Naomi Girma at center back, flanked by fullbacks Emily Fox and Crystal Dunn.Sauerbrunn is only the latest USWNT mainstay to be ruled out before the World Cup.
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