KANSAS CITY (April 1,\u00a02026)\u00a0\u2014\u00a0A pair of\u00a0Kansas City Current\u00a0players in forward Michelle Cooper and forward\/midfielder Ally\u00a0Sentnor\u00a0have been called up\u00a0by\u00a0the United States Women\u2019s National Team for the upcoming FIFA\u00a0international\u00a0window.\u00a0U.S. Soccer announced its\u00a026-player roster on Wednesday\u00a0for its training camp and three friendlies against Japan.<\/p>\n
The first\u00a0contest\u00a0will take place on Saturday, April 11,\u00a0at PayPal Park in San Jose, Calif., with kickoff set for 4:30 p.m. CT. The U.S. and Japan will face off again at Lumen Field in Seattle, Wash., at 9 p.m. CT on Tuesday, April 14,\u00a0before concluding the series on Friday, April 17, in Commerce City, Colo., at 8 p.m. CT at DICK\u2019S Sporting Goods Park.<\/p>\n
All three matches will broadcast on TNT, truTV and\u00a0HBOMax\u00a0in English as well as on Universo and Peacock in Spanish,\u00a0in addition to being available on the radio in English on Westwood One.<\/p>\n
Entering this international break,\u00a0Cooper has 10 caps, six starts, one\u00a0goal\u00a0and two assists\u00a0on her resume.\u00a0Sentnor\u00a0has 18 caps, nine starts\u00a0and\u00a0seven goals \u2013 including a team-leading three in 2026 \u2013\u00a0plus a\u00a0trio of\u00a0assists.<\/p>\n
Cooper returns to the international scene for the first time\u00a0in\u00a0nearly six\u00a0months\u00a0after recovering from\u00a0a foot injury.\u00a0Her last call-up\u00a0was\u00a0in October 2025\u00a0where she started two matches and dished out an\u00a0assist against New Zealand at CPKC Stadium.\u00a0She made her USWNT debut during the 2025 SheBelieves Cup\u00a0with her\u00a0first national team goal\u00a0proving to be\u00a0the game-winner\u00a0vs.\u00a0Australia\u00a0during the tournament. She\u00a0then\u00a0recorded her first assist\u00a0in\u00a0a\u00a0victory\u00a0over China PR a few months later.<\/p>\n
Sentnor\u2019s\u00a0initial\u00a0USWNT\u00a0invitation\u00a0was in November 2024,\u00a0and she has been called into all but one\u00a0senior\u00a0camp since.\u00a0Most recently, she netted the game-winning goal\u00a0against Canada in the second match of the 2026 SheBelieves Cup, a year after her breakthrough at the 2025 edition of the\u00a0event\u00a0where she had two goals and an assist.\u00a0Sentnor, the 2024 U.S. Soccer Young Female Player of the Year,\u00a0started the\u00a02026 campaign\u00a0by recording\u00a0two goals vs. Paraguay in January for her second career USWNT brace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY (April 1,\u00a02026)\u00a0\u2014\u00a0A pair of\u00a0Kansas City Current\u00a0players in forward Michelle Cooper and forward\/midfielder Ally\u00a0Sentnor\u00a0have been called up\u00a0by\u00a0the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-558527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}