Absolutely. No one is asking Emma Hayes to make her World Cup qualifying roster right now.

So we're going to do it for her.

My name is Claire Watkins.

This is this week's edition of the late sub.

It is Wednesday, July 9th.

And we're going to put a capper on this summer of soccer for the U.S. Women's National Team by talking about the larger player pool.

And if I had to choose right now, who I would be taking to next year's World Cup qualifying.

Let's dig in.

All right.

So don't worry.

We will be doing a big Euro's group stage roundup next week.

Once the entire group stage is set, we're going to

talk about the highs and lows of the European championships next week. But I wanted to take a second.

Love to take a second on this show and just put a real cap on the first half of the US women's

national teams half of the calendar year in what could truly end up being a transformative

year for the team. Emma Hayes has emphasized that this is the point where things are going to

start to get a little bit serious. They have a long break until their next friendlies in

October. That will be at about the year mark for World Cup qualifying next year in 2026. A lot of evaluation over the last six

months. We're going to see rosters be put together that, you know, take players from all the way

back to the beginning of 2025, maybe even the end of 2024, plus these players that have

really done well in the last two camps where Hayes kind of widen that player pool took a look at

players young players who might be able to compete for the team right away at this moment there is

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