Coach Jill Ellis doesn’t have many questions left, but she will be looking for answers just the same when her U.S. women’s national team faces Chile on Friday at StubHub Center in the first of two tuneups before next month’s CONCACAF Championships, which will serve as the regional qualifying tournament for next summer’s Women’s World Cup.
The defending-champion Americans have never missed a World Cup and has failed to win the regional qualifier just once. This year’s team is so deep, the women who fail to make the U.S. roster next month would almost certainly finish second in the CONCACAF tournament if they were allowed to enter.