The 2023 Women's World Cup is fast approaching, and time is running out for the U.S. women's national team to get ready for the summer tournament in Australia and New Zealand. This week the USWNT will compete in the SheBelieves Cup, which is the last good chance to identify problems (and solutions) before the World Cup.
The SheBelieves Cup features a trio of top-quality opponents in Brazil, Japan and Canada in what is the USWNT's second-to-last international window before the World Cup. (The last pre-World Cup window takes place in April, but by then it's probably too late to change much, and the USWNT's final opponents before a World Cup are usually lower-ranked teams so the Americans can build confidence.