U.S. Women’s National Team To Face Sweden and Japan to Prepare for Olympic Games

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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The U.S. women’s national team will face Sweden and Japan at the Volvo Winners Cup, which is a three-nation event that features the top three finishers from last summer’s FIFA Women’s World Cup in Germany. The tournament will give all three countries two excellent preparation matches heading into the Summer Olympics in London.

U.S. head coach Pia Sundhage recently named the 18-player U.S. roster that will compete in the Olympic games and brought that roster, plus the four named alternates, to Sweden for the two matches.

Sweden and Japan feature some of the best players in the world, and the meetings with these countries will be the second and third meeting of the year, respectively, for the U.S. team.

The USA and Sweden played in the third-place match at the Algarve Cup last March with the Americans coming away with a 4-0 victory as Alex Morgan notched her first career hat trick and Abby Wambach added a goal.

The USA vs. Japan game will mark the third meeting of the year between the two 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup finalists with Japan coming away with a 1-0 victory at the Algarve Cup during group play while the teams tied 1-1 in Japan during the Kirin Challenge Cup at the beginning of April.