U.S. U-20 WYNT Faces Morocco in Second Group C Match at 2024 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup
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USA FACES MOROCCO IN SECOND GROUP C MATCH OF 2024 FIFA U-20 WWC: After falling 1-0 to reigning FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup champion Spain in a hard-fought contest, the USA will be looking to regroup against first-time U-20 WWC participant Morocco on Wednesday, Sept. 4 in Cali (9 p.m. ET; FS2 & Telemundo Digital). The USA will need points in this match to keep its quest for the knockout rounds alive. Morocco lost its first game, 2-0, to Paraguay. The USA will finish the group stage against Paraguay on Saturday, Sept. 7 at El Techo Stadium in Bogotá (7 p.m. ET; FS2 & Universo). Fans can follow the U-20 WYNT throughout the tournament on ussoccer.com, Facebook, Twitter/X (@USYNT) and Instagram (@USYNT). For all the tournament results, go FIFA.com.
24 TEAMS VIE FOR 11TH U-20 TITLE: This year marks the 11th edition of the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup, FIFA’s highest-profile women’s competition after the World Cup and the Olympic Games. The biennial competition began as the FIFA U-19 Women’s World Championship in 2002 and was held as a U-19 event in 2004 before moving to its current Under-20 format in 2006. The 24 participating nations for the 2024 edition of the tournament were drawn into six groups of four teams. The top two finishers in each group along with the four best third-place teams will advance to the first-ever Round of 16 in this tournament, to be played on Wednesday, Sept. 11 and Thursday, Sept. 12. The winners of those matches advance to the Quarterfinals on Sunday, Sept. 15, from which the winners will advance to the Semifinals on Wednesday, Sept. 18. The Third-Place Match will be held on Saturday, Sept. 21 with the FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup Final taking place on Sunday, Sept. 22.
Date | Match | Kickoff (ET) | Venue; City | Broadcast |
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Sept. 4 | USA vs. Morocco | 9 p.m. | Pascual Guerrero Stadium; Cali, Colombia | FS2/Telemundo Digital |
Sept. 7 | USA vs. Paraguay | 7 p.m. | El Techo Stadium; Bogotá, Colombia | FS2/Universo |
Sept. 1
Spain 1, USA 0
Paraguay 2, Morocco 0
Sept. 4
USA vs. Morocco
Spain vs. Paraguay
Sept. 7
Spain vs. Morocco
USA vs. Paraguay
TEAM | GP | W | L | D | GF | GA | GD | PTS |
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Paraguay | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | +2 | 3 |
Spain | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | -1 | 3 |
USA | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
Morocco | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
WATCH FIFA U-20 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP ON FOX & TELEMUNDO: All USA’s group stage matches will be broadcast live on FOX Sports 2. Each of the 52 matches of the tournament will be broadcast on either FOX Soccer Plus or FS2, with 24 group stage matches on FSP and 12 group stage matches on FS2. All the games will be available online at FOXsports.com and the FOX Sports App with corresponding authentication. All of the matches will also be broadcast in Spanish on the Telemundo networks.
BIENVENIDO DE NUEVO, USA: Heading into the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup, the U.S. Under-20 National Team will have the benefit of having played two matches in Colombia last February. During the trip, the USA got to experience the World Cup stadiums, training sites, altitude, weather and culture, and it proved to be a valuable preparation experience for the young Americans. Those were the first two international matches of the year for the U.S. U-20s, and both games took place in Bogota, one in each of the stadiums being used for the World Cup, the first taking place at El Campin and the second at El Techo. The USA won both games against the hosts by 1-0 scores. The game-winner in the first game came in the 90+2nd minute from forward Pietra Tordin, which was her first international score, and the second was a 13th minute score from forward Ally Sentnor.
THE U.S. ROSTER -- PROS LEAD THE WAY: Players born on or after Jan. 1, 2004, are age-eligible for this World Cup, and this roster will set a record for the most professional players on a U.S. FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup Team with eight. All are in their rookie years for National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) clubs with midfielder Claire Hutton (Kansas City Current) and Sentnor (the #1 pick in the 2024 NWSL draft for the Utah Royals) seeing the most minutes among their peers so far this year. Defender Gisele Thompson, who joined her older sister Alyssa at Angel City FC this season, defender Savy King (the #2 pick in the 2024 NWSL Draft for Bay FC), midfielder Ally Lemos (the #9 pick in the 2024 NWSL Draft by the Orlando Pride), former U.S. U-17 WYNT captain Riley Jackson (North Carolina Courage) and forward Emeri Adames (Seattle Reign) have all seen action for their clubs this season. Adames, who signed last March, was the club’s first-ever U-18 signing. The now 18-year-old defender Jordan Bugg signed with Seattle on July 19. While Sentnor, King and Lemos were all high draft picks, the other five pros – Jackson, Adames, Thompson, Hutton and Bugg -- all signed professional contracts as high schoolers under the NWSL Under-18 Entry Mechanism, opting out of college soccer.
GOALKEEPERS (3): Caroline Birkel (St. Louis Scott Gallagher; St. Louis, Mo.; 0), Mackenzie Gress (Penn State; Lyndhurst, N.J.; 5), Teagan Wy (California; Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.; 9)
DEFENDERS (6): Jordyn Bugg (Seattle Reign; El Cajon, Calif.; 5/1), Elise Evans (Stanford; Redwood City, Calif.; 13/0), Heather Gilchrist (Florida State, Boulder, Colo.; 6/0), Savy King (Bay FC; West Hills, Calif.; 13/0), Leah Klenke (Notre Dame; Houston, Texas; 12/0), Gisele Thompson (Angel City FC; Studio City, Calif.; 8/1)
MIDFIELDERS (6): Addison Halpern (PDA; Middlesex, N.J.; 0/0), Claire Hutton (Kansas City Current; Bethlehem, N.Y.; 6/0), Riley Jackson (North Carolina Courage; Roswell, Ga.; 9/1), Ally Lemos (Orlando Pride; Glendora, Calif.; 13/1), Yuna McCormack (Virginia; Mill Valley, Calif.; 3/0), Taylor Suarez (Florida State; Charlotte, N.C.; 9/1)
FORWARDS (6): Emeri Adames (Seattle Reign; Red Oak, Texas; 7/1), Maddie Dahlien (North Carolina; Edina, Minn.; 9/4), Jordynn Dudley (Florida State; Milton, Ga.; 10/3), Giana Riley (Florida State; Manteca, Calif.; 8/1), Ally Sentnor (Utah Royals; Hanson, Mass.; 17/9), Pietra Tordin (Princeton; Miami, Fla.; 8/2)
SENTNOR MARKING THE SCORESHEET: Forward Ally Sentnor is one of the front-runners for NWSL Rookie of the Year (an award that seems to be firmly in the grasp of 2024 Olympic gold medalist Croix Bethune), and has scored three goals during league play, two more in the NWSL x LA LIGA Summer Cup and two more in an Aug. 16 friendly against Women’s Super League side Crystal Palace F.C. Women in a 3-0 victory. She also has four assists in all matches for a team that is struggling at the bottom of the NWSL. Sentnor was named the NWSL Rookie of the Month and Player of the Month for the month of July and is only the second player to win both of the awards in the same month. Sentnor has started every Royals match for which she has been available.
NWSL MINUTES FOR U.S. U-20S: Midfielder Claire Hutton (KC Current) and forward Ally Sentnor (Utah Royals) have played the most NWSL minutes this season for their clubs, but all of the USA’s pros have seen some playing time so far this season. Jordyn Bugg (Seattle Reign) played in her first NWSL regular season match on Aug. 25.
RUNNING IT BACK: Two players in Colombia were a part of the last U-20 cycle: goalkeeper Teagan Wy, who did not play in Costa Rica in 2022, and forward Ally Sentnor, who was coming back from a major knee injury, but scored once – against Ghana – and had a goal called back against the Netherlands by the slimmest of offside margins. Sentnor, a long-time Youth National Team standout, scored two goals for the U-18 WYNT, both against England, six international goals at the U-17 level and one goal at the U-16 international level, that coming against Switzerland.
GOALKEEPERS (3): 1-Ines Souifi (US Colomiers, FRA), 12-Fatima El Jebraqui (Wydad AC), 16-Anissa Rouinba (1. FC Koln, GER)
DEFENDERS (7): 2-Naini Fatima-Zahraa (CS Hilal Temara), 3-Djennah Cherif (Evian TG FC, FRA), 4-Ikram Neddar (Frosinone Calcio FC, ITA), 5-Fatima El Ghazouani (RC Lens, FRA), 13-Siham Bouhouch (RC Strasbourg, FRA), 14-Maissen Bourhrine (Olympique Lyon, FRA), 21-Said Hajar (FC Girondins Bordeax, FRA)
MIDFIELDERS (5): 6-Dania Boussatta (Unattached), 8-Samya Masnaqui (Unattached), 10-Dounia Ftouh (AS FAR), 15-Lina Aich (Stade Reims, FRA), 17-Kawtar Ait Omar (KRC Genk, BEL)
FORWARDS (6): 7-Doha El Madani (AS FAR), 9-Yasmine Zouhir (Real Betis, ESP), 11-Sofia Boussate (Montpellier HSC, FRA), 18-Romaissa Boukakar (AZ Alkmaar, NED), 19-Kautar Azraf (FC Barcelona, ESP), 20-Hajar Jbilou (FAR Rabat)