U.S. women's national team head coach Jill Ellis has named her 23-player roster for the 2019 World Cup, which includes a host of expected names and a couple of surprises.
Mainstays, including Alex Morgan, Megan Rapinoe, Carli Lloyd, Julie Ertz and Becky Sauerbrunn, will headline the team as it aims to win its second straight World Cup.
But the bigger news on Thursday was the selection of three names who have been mostly out of the USWNT picture recently: Allie Long, Ali Krieger and Morgan Brian.
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Krieger, a right back who started all of the USWNT's matches at the 2015 World Cup, only just returned to the team after a two-year exile.