Alex Morgan: USWNT Has A ‘Target On Our Backs’ Every Single Tournament

Despite featuring a squad with 14 World Cup debutants and without captain Becky Sauerbrunn, Samantha Mewis and Mallory Swanson out due to injuries, the USWNT is the odds-on favorite to win the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, which kicks off on July 20 in Australia and New Zealand.

Should the USWNT hoist the World Cup trophy on August 20, the United States would become the first nation—men’s or women’s—to win on soccer and sport’s grandest stage three consecutive times.