contrary to reports the uswnt talent pool is deep af, here's who's next

Emma Hayes’s USWNT are ahead of schedule. After the team’s worst ever finish to a World Cup it was reasonably assumed that it would take more than a new manager, four warmup games and ~twelve training sessions before they’d be ready to win another major tournament. Lol. Lmao. Oops.

The extremely cool part is that they won a gold medal with what should be the “least” talented roster for quite some time. Hayes also only trusted a small core group of players and hoped for the best, and got it. Now, with several international windows to come and just under three years to build to the 2027 World Cup, the real work can begin.

This is the shit Hayes lives for. She scoured the globe to build Chelsea into the Chelsea we see today, and while she’s now limited to U.S.-eligible players, the talent pool is deep af. So we’re going position by position to highlight players who could, and/or should, be on Hayes’s radar. I’ve also revved up the StatsBomb machine to spotlight what each player does best.