The U.S. Women's National Team is back from their extended summer break, and we have a roster to discuss. I'm going to be talking about Emma Hayes' internal logic as she discussed it with the media this morning. Oh, I should probably say what we're doing here. I'm Claire Watkins. This is this week's edition of the late sub is Wednesday, October 15th. I'm too excited about the U.S. Women's National Team roster. Got a lot to jump in here. We're going to be talking about each individual

lines. This week's edition of the late sub is Wednesday, October 15th. I'm too excited about the US women's national team roster.

Got a lot to jump in here.

We're going to be talking about each individual line, players that are in, players that are out,

what Hayes is doing in the vision for the future, and why there's a lot to be excited about

as we go into this three-game international window at the end of October.

Let's jump in.

So after a bit of a break, the U.S. Women's National Team is back. With a 26 player roster for their upcoming October friendlies, the first two will be

against Portugal, and there will be a third against

New Zealand in Kansas City. This group that we saw announced today is that promise sort of

marriage between European-based players and the NWSL players that, you know, we saw players in Europe

get some time off over the summer, well-earned, players like

Lindsay Heap, Katerina Macario, Lily Johannes, et cetera.

Hayes wanted to give these players some time off during that short, short, short break in the European calendar,

fully deserved.

But now things are getting serious.

Naomi Germa is still out.

She will be the one player missing from that group.

Still dealing with that calf injury that has delayed her Chelsea debut for this season.

Hopefully, you know, Hayes said in her availability today that hopefully Germa is in that

return to play protocol.

They are expecting her back.

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