Alex Morgan has stated the USA girls’s crew is the “greatest ever” forward of the Girls’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand this summer season.
The back-to-back World Cup champions face the Netherlands, Portugal and Vietnam in Group E for the match that begins on July 20.
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Morgan, who’s trying to declare her third successive World Cup title, is assured in regards to the crew’s possibilities.
“I feel that this crew is the very best we have ever had,” she instructed the Guardian in an interview.
She added: “We’ve the arrogance that we have to go right into a World Cup and show why we need to win. I really feel like we have now the expertise, we have now the standard, we have now the precise coach, the precise gamers, the precise camaraderie, the precise mentality.
“I do not suppose that is completely different from earlier World Cup groups, however I feel there’s a whole lot of completely different small particulars in place to get us to the identical place that we have been in a position to go in 2015 and 2019 [and USA’s other World Cup titles in] 1999, 1991.”
Morgan additionally stated that England are one of many essential contenders to win the World Cup after sealing the European Championship final summer season.
Morgan, 33, was on the scoresheet when the U.S. knocked England out of the 2019 World Cup semifinals on their strategy to the title however warned the Lionesses are in significantly better place now.
“I feel they’ve undoubtedly come a great distance within the final couple of years, and I feel that is credit score to a whole lot of issues,” she stated. “No. 1, their home league, that has simply gotten so significantly better and a lot extra aggressive within the final 5 years.
“Their federation’s elevated give attention to their girls’s program that I do not suppose existed greater than 5 years in the past, bringing in the very best and most certified coaches, ensuring that their gamers are compensated pretty.
“I feel that they’ve fought and have achieved near equal pay and dealing circumstances. I feel additionally their mentality has shifted. After they got here shut … within the 2019 World Cup, after which profitable the Euros, I feel there was an enormous mentality shift for them.”
The U.S. will play their remaining sport earlier than the beginning of World Cup in opposition to Wales in San Jose, California, on July 9.