{"id":366614,"date":"2026-10-07T05:59:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T05:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/366614\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T05:59:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T05:59:19","slug":"theyre-wanted-brooklyn-fc-womens-cudjoe-called-up-by-ghana-norris-by-mexico-u-23s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/366614\/","title":{"rendered":"THEY&#8217;RE WANTED: Brooklyn FC Women&#8217;s Cudjoe called up by Ghana, Norris by Mexico U-23&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\tOverview:<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn FC Women announced on Tuesday that midfielder Jennifer Cudjoe has been called up to the Ghana women&#8217;s national team for its upcoming two matches against Mauritius on Oct. 8 and 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BROOKLYN, N.Y. \u2014 Brooklyn FC Women announced on Tuesday that midfielder Jennifer Cudjoe has been called up to the Ghana women\u2019s national team for its upcoming two matches against Mauritius on Oct. 8 and 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two games are part of the women\u2019s preliminary competition for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Football Tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cudjoe recently represented her national team at the Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations, helping Ghana reach the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She joined Brooklyn FC in November 2025. She has made 18 appearances and recorded her first assist in a 3-2 win over Sporting JA earlier this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brooklyn goalkeeper and captain Bre Norris has also been called up to international duty, rejoining the Mexico Under-23 women\u2019s squad. Norris was called up in May 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Norris joined Brooklyn FC before the 2025-26 Gainbridge Super League season, earning the starting goalkeeper spot and making 10 appearances. She was named captain this summer and started every game up to this point. Norris will be unavailable for Brooklyn\u2019s match on Oct. 10.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontrowsoccer.com\/author\/michael\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/MichaelLewis-12920a-150x150.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\"  alt=\"Michael Lewis\" class=\"avatar avatar-120 wp-user-avatar wp-user-avatar-120 alignnone photo\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Front Row Soccer editor Michael Lewis has covered 13 World Cups (eight men, five women), seven Olympics and 28 MLS Cups. He has written about New York City FC, New York Cosmos, the New York Red Bulls and both U.S. national teams and has penned a soccer history column for the Guardian.com. Lewis, who has been honored by the Press Club of Long Island and National Soccer Coaches Association of America, is the former editor of BigAppleSoccer.com. He has written seven books about the beautiful game and has published <a href=\"https:\/\/frontrow.soccer\/alivekicking\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ALIVE AND KICKING<\/a> The incredible but true story of the Rochester Lancers. It is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/frontrow.soccer\/alivekicking\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.frontrowsoccer.com\/author\/michael\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tMore by Michael Lewis\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Overview: Brooklyn FC Women announced on Tuesday that midfielder Jennifer Cudjoe has been called up to the Ghana&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[135715,98,71674,100,99,135716,19202,19079,135717,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-366614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-bre-norris","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-fc-women","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-ghana-womens-national-team","tag-gotham-fc","tag-jennifer-cudjoe","tag-mexico-under23-womens-national-team","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}