U.S. head coach Tracey Kevins named the final World Cup roster following a dominant title-winning run at the 2022 Concacaf Women's U-20 Championship, which was held last March in the Dominican Republic, and five additional international matches in May and June. The World Cup qualifying tournament marked the return of international matches for this age group after a long pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A sophomore from Clarkston, Mich., Cooper is coming off scoring eight goals at the Concacaf Women's U-20 Championship to win the Golden Boot as the top scorer and Golden Ball as the best player. Cooper turned in a highly decorated freshman season at Duke in 2021 that saw her earn ACC Freshman of the Year and United Soccer Coaches first-team All-America honors, while being named a semifinalist for the MAC Hermann Trophy. She led Duke with 12 goals – the most by a rookie in program history – and 29 points, which ranked fifth overall in the ACC and fifth among all freshmen nationally. Cooper's 1.61 points per game were good for 23rd nationally and second among freshmen.
Lageyre will join the U-20 squad after attending the training camp and two friendly matches against Costa Rica in May at the Elite Athlete Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif. A 5-7 midfielder from Cooper City, Fla., Lageyre is ranked as the No. 4 overall prospect and No. 1 midfielder in the class of 2022 by TopDrawerSoccer.com. She helped lead the U-20 Women's National Team to the UEFA Women's Development Tournament title in May of 2019 in Prague and has been a member of the U.S. Youth National Team pool since 2017.
The sixteen teams that will compete at the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup are host Costa Rica, Canada, Mexico and the USA from Concacaf, Australia, Japan and Korea Republic from Asia, Ghana and Nigeria from Africa, France, Germany, Spain and Netherlands from Europe, New Zealand from Oceania and Brazil and Colombia from South America.
The 16 participating nations were drawn into four groups of four teams. The top two finishers in each group will advance to the quarterfinals, to be held on Saturday, Aug. 20 and Sunday, Aug. 21. The winners of those matches will advance to the semifinals on Thursday, Aug. 25. The championship game and third-place match will be played on Sunday, Aug. 28.
All matches of the World Cup will be played at two venues, which are only about 12 miles apart: Estadio Nacional in San José and Estadio Morera Soto in Alajuela. All of the matches will be broadcast on the FOX Sports family of networks.
The U.S. opens the tournament on Thursday, Aug. 11 against Ghana at Estadio Morera Soto (1 p.m. ET; FS2). The teams last met in the U-20 WWC in 2016, a 1-1 draw in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. The USA and Ghana also met in the opening game of the 2012 U-20 World Cup, a 4-0 U.S. win, and in the opening game of the 2010 U-20 World Cup, another 1-1 draw.
The U-20s will then face the Netherlands for the first time in a U-20 World Cup on Sunday, Aug. 14 at Estadio Nacional (7 p.m. ET; FS1) and finish the group stage against Japan on Wednesday, Aug. 17 back at Estadio Morera Soto (7 p.m. ET; FS2). The USA has played Japan in the last two U-20 World Cups, both 1-0 losses, the first in the third-place match of the 2016 tournament and the second in group play in 2018.
With the Blue Devil duo being named to the U.S. squad, they will miss all preseason practice and into the first few weeks of Duke's regular season.
Fans can follow along with Duke's preseason adventures by following the program on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram by searching for "DukeWSOC". Weekly practice reports will be published on GoDuke.com on the Friday of each week during preseason.
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