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WNT vs. Germany

October 28, 2009

U.S. Women’s National Team

Augsburg, Germany

Oct. 28, 2009

USA READY FOR CLASH WITH GERMANY AT SOLD-OUT IMPULS ARENA: After eight days of training in chilly Germany, the U.S. team is primed and ready for its clash with Germany at the newly opened Impuls Arena in Augsburg. The match between the top two teams in the current FIFA Women’s World Rankings will kick off at 6 p.m. local time (1 p.m. ET) and fans can follow on ussoccer.com’s MatchTracker. It will be the first meeting between the teams since January of 2007 making it 33 months between matches. Since that last game against Germany, which opened the USA’s 2007 schedule, the Americans have lost just two matches and tied six while winning 58 games.

U.S. Women’s National Team Roster

GOALKEEPERS (2): Nicole Barnhart (FC Gold Pride), Hope Solo (St. Louis Athletica)

DEFENDERS (6): Brittany Bock (Los Angeles Sol), Rachel Buehler (FC Gold Pride), Lori Chalupny (St. Louis Athletica), Amy LePeilbet (Boston Breakers), Heather Mitts (Philadelphia Independence), Cat Whitehill (Washington Freedom)

MIDFIELDERS (7): Yael Averbuch (Sky Blue FC), Shannon Boxx (Los Angeles Sol), Tobin Heath (UNC), Lori Lindsey (Philadelphia Independence), Carli Lloyd (Sky Blue FC), Heather O’Reilly (Sky Blue FC), Kacey White (Sky Blue FC)

FORWARDS (3): Ella Masar (Chicago Red Stars), Amy Rodriguez (Philadelphia Independence), Abby Wambach (Washington Freedom)

GERMANY HOSTS THE WORLD: The 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup will be held in Germany and the USA will get a good taste of the atmosphere that awaits them as a sold-out crowd is expected at Impuls Arena, which will serve as one of the nine venues for the sixth Women’s World Cup. The two-time defending champions, hosting on their own soil, will be favorites to hoist a third consecutive trophy, but the Americans will hopefully have something to stay about that. There is no doubt, however, the Germans will run a fantastic Women’s World Cup, scheduled for June 26-July 17, 2011, in nine cities: Augsburg, Berlin, Bochum, Dresden, Frankfurt, Leverkusen, Mönchengladbach, Sinsheim and Wolfsburg. The venues are spread out all over Germany. Almost all of the cities will host four matches, but unlike past Women’s World Cups, there will be no doubleheaders. The largest stadium is in Berlin (74,244), which will host just the opening game featuring the Germans. The smallest stadium is in Bochum, which seats 23,691. The Women’s World Cup Final will take place in Frankfurt (49,240) on July 17. The dates and venues for CONCACAF qualifying have yet to be determined, but the competition will likely be held at the end of 2010. Germany will also host the next FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup, taking place July 13-Aug. 1, 2010.

QUICK HITS:

• Of the 18 players on the roster for the match, just six played against Germany during the last meeting between the teams in January of 2007: Hope Solo, Heather Mitts, Cat Whitehill (who was the U.S. captain), Lori Chalupny , Carli Lloyd (who came off the bench) and Heather O’Reilly.
• The USA’s 11 goals this year have been scored by nine different players. Only Shannon Boxx and Megan Rapinoe have two each.
• U.S. goalkeeper Solo has an all-time record of 64-5-9. Nicole Barnhart has never lost a match and is 12-0-1.
• O’Reilly’s 25 goals put her 15th on the all-time list. Abby Wambach is tied for fourth all-time in U.S. history with her 100 goals. Along with Lindsay Tarpley (30 goals), they are the only three active U.S. National Team players in the top-15 all-time goal scorers.
• Since returning from her year-long rehabilitation from a knee injury suffered against Australia on April 27 of 2008, Mitts has made a run to and through the Olympics, the Achieve Your Gold Tour, the Algarve Cup and the most recent exhibitions that have seen her start 30 of the 32 games the USA has played.
• The USA has received five yellow cards this year, one each to Boxx, Rachel Buehler, Kendall Fletcher, Rapinoe and Angie Woznuk.
• Of the 193 players who have represented the United States Women’s National Team, 80 have scored a goal.
• Heather O’Reilly leads the U.S. team in assists in 2009 with three.
• The USA had five players log 11 multiple-goal matches in 2008, but the USA has not had a player score more than one goal in a match in the last 16 matches. The last player to score more than one goal in a game was Angela Hucles against Japan in the Olympic semifinal on Aug. 18, 2008. The players who scored multiple goals were Amy Rodriguez, Tarpley (three times), Wambach (twice), Natasha Kai (three times) and Hucles.
• Since Pia Sundhage took over the U.S. team in the fall of 2007, she has given seven players their first-ever caps, but just two of them are on the roster for the Germany game. Sundhage’s first-cappers are: Buehler, Tina DiMartino, Fletcher, Tobin Heath, Ali Krieger, Christine Nairn and Becky Sauerbrunn.
• The U.S. team has been shutout in a match just seven times in the last 100 international matches, but lost just three of those games. The USA tied Australia 0-0 in October of 2005, tied France 0-0 in January of 2006, tied Germany 0-0 in March of 2006 (in a game the USA lost in PKs in the Algarve Cup Final), tied Germany 0-0 in January of 2007, lost to Brazil 0-4 in the 2007 FIFA Women’s World Cup Final, lost to Norway 0-2 in the first round of the 2008 Olympics and tied South Korea in November of 2008. By contrast, the USA has earned 66 shutouts in its last 100 matches.
• Since the end of the 2007 FIFA Women’s World Cup, the USA is 41-1-4.

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