Daily News | Meet the 23 players on the U.S. women’s World Cup team
Her experience at the 2019 World Cup and 2021 Olympics makes her a key veteran. Sonnett’s charismatic locker room presence makes her just as important off the field. She also can play multiple positions, having been a centerback and outside back for the U.S. and a defensive midfielder at club level.
There’s just one problem: the centerback depth chart stops here. It’s no slight on Sonnett, to be clear, but it’s rare for a World Cup team to have three centerbacks instead of four — and even rarer when the third isn’t really a regular at the position. Coach Vlatko Andonovski’s biggest gamble is not taking Tierna Davidson to bolster the ranks.
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