Daily News | Lynn Williams, Midge Purce return to USWNT for this month’s trip to New Zealand
The U.S. women’s team holds a January gathering every year, but it’s usually on home soil. This time, the program is going to the country where it will be based for this summer’s World Cup. Though the Americans and Football Ferns have met 19 times before, including in last year’s SheBelieves Cup, they’ve all been in the United States.
Now they’ll play a two-game set after the U.S. has a few days of training camp. The first game will be at the 34,500-seat Sky Stadium in Wellington, kicking off at 10 p.m. Eastern Time on Jan. 17 . The second game will be at Eden Park, the 50,000-seat national stadium in Auckland that’s famously the home of the nation’s superpower men’s rugby team. It will be the first time New Zealand’s women’s soccer team plays there. Kickoff is set for 10 p.m. ET on Jan. 20 .
The U.S. will play at both of those venues during this summer’s World Cup, which New Zealand will co-host with Australia. Eden Park will host its first and third group stage games, respectively against Vietnam and a qualifier from the upcoming inter-continental playoffs.Sky Stadium will host the second group stage game, a rematch of the 2019 World Cup final against the Netherlands.
The U.S. could play in both venues during the knockout rounds too, if it wins its group. The bracket path sets up a quarterfinal in Wellington and a semifinal in Auckland. Only two games would be in Australia: the round of 16 game in Sydney and the final in Sydney or third place game in Brisbane.
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