The U.S. girls’s nationwide group’s penultimate match earlier than the 2024 Summer season Olympics has been determined.
Mexico will oppose the People at Purple Bull Area in Harrison, New Jersey on July 13, U.S. Soccer introduced Friday. The match may even function an twenty fifth anniversary organized reunion of the 1999 FIFA Ladies’s World Cup-winning facet to have fun the USWNT’s main achievement.
The pleasant has been named the “Impression 99” match.
“This shall be a enjoyable and inspirational weekend,” stated U.S. Soccer President Cindy Parlow Cone, herself a key member of the 1999 Ladies’s World Cup Group who scored within the semifinal of that event.
“The followers will get the possibility to point out their assist for the group earlier than they head to France whereas additionally celebrating our 1999 Ladies’s World Cup Group. This can be a group of girls who did a lot for the game and the influence of that group and event remains to be being felt 25 years later, particularly as we bid for the 2027 FIFA Ladies’s World Cup. I can’t wait to see my teammates and associates.”
Each the USA and Mexico have submitted a joint bid to host the 2027 FIFA Ladies’s World Cup. FIFA’s choice is anticipated to be introduced this Could.
It can mark the third all-time showdown between the USWNT and Mexico at Purple Bull Area, with the previous matches going down in 2011 and 2019 respectively. The People defeated Mexico 3-0 within the 2019 pleasant, which served as the ultimate pre-World Cup pleasant for the USWNT earlier than they received the competitors that summer time in France.
Mexico defeated the USWNT 2-0 of their most up-to-date matchup on the 2024 CONCACAF W Gold Cup.