Where the situation with the Nawnt goalkeeper stands after the first games 2025

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Houston – Jane Campbell He doesn’t try to be Alyssa Naeher. But he hopes to inherit her.

Naeher, who will descend as one of the greatest American goalkeepers of all time, announced her pension from international football at the end of 2024. Her departure immediately created a figurative and literal hole within United States The women’s national team-theteen was a 10-year-old veteran on the team and, although she was not a captain or the most vocal person, was a leader.

The vacancy is already one of the biggest stories and questions about Nawnt, and creates an opportunity for competition among younger goalkeepers who deal with a new regular starter. At the two years before the next Nawnt main tournament – there is nothing pressed to the 2027 World Cup. In Brazil and the Olympic Games 2028. In Los Angeles – Coach Emma Hayes has time to make a real call.

“No one will fill (Naeher’s) shoes, right?” Campbell said Fox Sports after Shutting down Colombia 2-0 in Shebelieves Cup. “Someone else will take over the job and I think it’s great that Emma really, really expanded the goalkeeper’s pool and everyone gets a lot of chances and invited to camps.

“I think everyone is sending a little. Every chance you get is a blessing. I’ll just put my best foot forward and be the best version of yourself and I hope it’s good enough.”

So what does Nawnt look for in the next goalkeeper?

“Trust. Loud. In accordance with our style,” the captain Lindsey Heaps Fox Sports said recently. “I think Emma and our goalkeeper coaches do a great job to make sure our goalkeeper know what we want from them and how we want to play and ensure that they dive deep into it.

“But ultimately, you want the goalkeeper there to be confident and loud and feel comfortable with you, and you don’t want to hit another.”

Hayes consumes most of the 2025 -year -old players and gives fewer experienced players more time in a nation environment – and that includes goalkeepers. In a better part of the last 10 years, it has been a challenge to start anyone in the goal other than Naeher, who ended his Nawnt career with 110 starts in 113 appearances.

Among those who compete is Casey Murphywho was previously considered a heir to be obvious and served as Naeher’s World Cup in 2023 in Australia and Novi Zealand and then at the 2024 Olympics in Paris. There are the most caps (20) any other player in the pool, but after participating in January camp, The courage of North Carolina The starter was not invited to Shebelieves Cup.

Hayes invited only two goalkeepers – Campbell, who plays for Houston dashand Utah Royals‘Mandy McGlynn. Phallon Tullis-JoyceWhat is a regular starter for Manchester United And there are nine clean leaves so far this season, he has been invited as a training player, which means she practiced with a team, but she didn’t dress for matches.

Like Murphy, Claudia Dickey (Seattle Reign) and Angelina Anderson (Angel City) were part of January, but not part of the last. Hayes had its reasons. For example, she wanted a better view of the previously injured Campbella and explained that the other mentioned goalkeepers were still very part of the plans, but she is limited to how many of them can be on each list.

The window in February, as well as those who come in April, May and June, are the chances that Hayes and her staff get to know the players better. While Hayes achieved fast success in his short term with Nawnt, she is the main trainer for nine months. He still learns about the skills of making the decisions of their goalkeepers, how they work under pressure and can they make big savings. And players still learn exactly what they want from them.

“I think every camp, we all feel like we’re going back to the lecture room and we really study the game again,” Campbell said. “With new faces and old faces – sometimes it’s hard with new faces and somehow I consider myself a new face – so it gets used to everything and it’s fun.”

Campbell started the introductory match of Shebelieves Cup and left 1-1 with a victory against Colombia and a loss in the final vs. Japan. Heaps believes that “exactly what we need in this team” is moving forward.

“I think she’s the winner,” Heaps said. “I think she has the perfect mentality for this position. It really wasn’t a starter on this team yet, and that’s how it was with a goalkeeper who appeared. It’s really a difficult position to get in. Once you get these options, you have to really grab them and catch them.”

McGlynn went 1-0, playing a second match against Australia. Hayes praised his accumulation traits and said, “She is good with his feet, a good decision maker and (can be made) under pressure. I have not seen her enough to know different measures of her presence, we are still learning about her.”

“They both have a little experience with the Games on this level, and you will not know the following steps if we don’t play them,” Hayes added. “It is important to remember that, for many years, the other goalkeepers have not received the same playing time as Alyssa. Of course it is a world -class goalkeeper, but we have to close the gap for both of them.

“I have been in this situation many times in my career and I know that we have a plan, and it is important that we continue to develop as we are.”

The NWSL season begins on March 14, which means that Hayes will call her next team in April, she will better look at a group that is consistently played (only Tullis-Joyce is currently in the season in Europe).

“For me, selfishly, I just want to learn every camp and see if I can constantly add a layer to the layer, no matter how often or not to the camp,” Campbell said. “We all try to learn and grow our own game and see our puzzles together fit into this team.”

Laken Litman covers college football, basketball and football for Fox Sports. She had previously written for Sports Illustrated, USA Today and The Indianapolis Star. She is the author “Strong Like A Woman”, published in the spring of 2022 to mark the 50th anniversary of the title IX. Follow her on @Lakenlitm.

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