FC Kansas City only have two United States Women’s National Team players actively playing for their team; Becky Sauerbrunn and Heather O’Reilly. Sure Amy Rodriguez and Sydney Leroux are on the team, but they are both pregnant and likely to miss most (if not all) of the 2016 season. And yes Nicole Barnhart and Yael Averbuch are former members of the USWNT. But the weight is really on Becky and Heather.
With the retirements of Lauren Holiday and Amy LePeilbet (and so many others) the pressure is on O’Reilly and Sauerbrunn to step up their game. In the first game of the season against the Western New York Flash, that simply didn’t happen.