2012 United States women's national soccer team

The 2012 United States women's national soccer team season was dominated by the 2012 Women's Olympic Football Tournament. The start of the year saw the team compete in the CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying Tournament and then in July they participated in the main event itself. The team won both tournaments. In between they also played in Algarve Cup, the Kirin Challenge Cup and the 2012 Sweden Invitational. They also won the latter tournament.

2012 United States Women's National Soccer Team
Nickname(s)The Yanks
The Stars and Stripes
AssociationUnited States Soccer Federation
ConfederationCONCACAF
(North America)
Head coachPia Sundhage
CaptainChristie Rampone
FIFA code United States
First colours
Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current1
Highest1 (January 2012)
First international
 United States 14–0 Dominican Rep. 
(Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; January 20, 2012)
Biggest win
 United States 14–0 Dominican Rep. 
(Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; January 20, 2012)
Biggest defeat
 United States 0–1 Japan 
(Faro, Portugal; March 5, 2012)

2012 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament

Group Stage
Dominican Republic 0–14 United States
Report Wambach  1', 19'
Lloyd  4'
Buehler  7'
O'Reilly  17', 32', 78'
Heath  30'
Rodriguez  46', 48', 58', 70', 75'
Cheney  64'
Attendance: 6,321[1]
Referee: Cardella Samuels (Jamaica)
United States 13–0 Guatemala
Wambach  12', 15'
Cheney  25'
Rodriguez  29'
Lloyd  33'
Lindsey  34'
Leroux  48', 50', 57', 70', 87'
Rapinoe  75'
Morgan  83'		 Report
BC Place, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Attendance: 6,738
Referee: Irasema Aguilera (Cuba)
United States 4–0 Mexico
Lloyd  8', 57', 86'
O'Reilly  9'		 Report
BC Place, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Attendance: 7,599
Referee: Carol Ann Chenard (Canada)

Semi-finals
United States 3–0 Costa Rica
Heath  16'
Lloyd  72'
Morgan  89'		 Report
BC Place, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Irasema Aguilera (Cuba)

Final
Canada 0–4 United States
Report Morgan  4', 56'
Wambach  24', 28'
BC Place, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Attendance: 25,427
Referee: Quetzalli Godinez (Mexico)

International friendly
February 11 Friendly United States  2–1  New Zealand Frisco, Texas
15:15 UTC−06 Morgan  88', 90+3' Report Wilkinson  49' Stadium: FC Dallas Stadium
Attendance: 20,677
Referee:
Moo Hackett  United States
Assistant referees:
Veronica Perez  United States
Jennifer Jones  United States
Fourth official:
Juliana Duncan  United States

Group Stage
United States 5–0 Denmark
Morgan  21', 82'
Wambach  45+1'
Lloyd  77'
Leroux  90+1'		 Report
Estádio Municipal, Lagos
Attendance: 300[2]
Referee: Liang Qin (China PR)[2]
United States 2–1 Norway
Wambach  52'
Leroux  83'		 Report Thorsnes  90+3'
Estádio Municipal, Lagos
Attendance: 300[3]
Japan 1–0 United States
Takase  84' Report
Attendance: 1,000[4]
Referee: Pernill Larsson (Sweden)[4]

Third Place Match
Sweden 0–4 United States
Report Morgan  4', 33', 73'
Wambach  36'
Estádio Municipal, Parchal
Attendance: 400[5]
Referee: Morag Pirie (Scotland)[5]

2012 Women's Kirin Challenge Cup
Japan 1–1 United States
Kinga  31' Report Morgan  72'
Attendance: 15,159
Referee: Li Juan (CHN)
United States 3–0 Brazil
Lloyd  18'
Boxx  23'
Buehler  77'
Rodriguez  83'		 Report Ester  82'
Attendance: 500
Referee: Sachiko Yamagishi

2012 Sweden Invitational
Sweden 1–3 United States
Schelin  35' Report Wambach  8'
Morgan  22'
Heath  56'
Attendance: 2,751
Referee: Teodora Albon (ROU)
United States 4–1 Japan
Morgan  3', 61'
Wambach  10', 90+2'		 Report Nagasato  28'
Attendance: 1,309
Referee: Linn Andersson (SWE)

Squad

The following is the United States squad in the women's soccer tournament of the 2012 Summer Olympics.[6]

Coach: Pia Sundhage

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals 2012 club
1 1GK Hope Solo (1981-07-30)30 July 1981 (aged 30) 118 0 Seattle Sounders
2 2DF Heather Mitts (1978-09-09)9 September 1978 (aged 33) 126 2 Unattached
3 2DF Christie Rampone (c) (1975-06-24)24 June 1975 (aged 37) 260 4 Unattached
4 2DF Becky Sauerbrunn (1985-06-06)6 June 1985 (aged 27) 24 0 D.C. United
5 2DF Kelley O'Hara (1988-08-04)4 August 1988 (aged 23) 19 0 Unattached
6 2DF Amy LePeilbet (1982-03-12)12 March 1982 (aged 30) 70 0 Unattached
7 3MF Shannon Boxx (1977-06-29)29 June 1977 (aged 35) 168 23 Unattached
8 4FW Amy Rodriguez (1987-02-17)17 February 1987 (aged 25) 89 25 Unattached
9 3MF Heather O'Reilly (1985-01-02)2 January 1985 (aged 27) 166 34 Boston Breakers
10 3MF Carli Lloyd (1982-07-16)16 July 1982 (aged 30) 135 36 Unattached
11 4FW Sydney Leroux (1990-05-07)7 May 1990 (aged 22) 14 7 Seattle Sounders
12 4FW Lauren Cheney (1987-09-30)30 September 1987 (aged 24) 67 18 Unattached
13 4FW Alex Morgan (1989-07-02)2 July 1989 (aged 23) 42 27 Seattle Sounders
14 4FW Abby Wambach (1980-06-02)2 June 1980 (aged 32) 182 138 Unattached
15 3MF Megan Rapinoe (1985-07-05)5 July 1985 (aged 27) 52 12 Seattle Sounders
16 2DF Rachel Buehler (1985-08-26)26 August 1985 (aged 26) 82 3 Unattached
17 3MF Tobin Heath (1988-05-29)29 May 1988 (aged 24) 45 6 New York Fury
18 1GK Nicole Barnhart (1981-10-10)10 October 1981 (aged 30) 43 0 Unattached

Group G
United States 4–2 France
Wambach  19'
Morgan  32', 66'
Lloyd  56'		 Report Thiney  12'
Delie  14'
Attendance: 18,090[7]
Referee: Sachiko Yamagishi (Japan)
United States 3–0 Colombia
Rapinoe  33'
Wambach  74'
Lloyd  77'		 Report
Attendance: 11,313[8]
Referee: Efthalia Mitsi (Greece)
United States 1–0 North Korea
Wambach  25' Report
Attendance: 29,522[9]

Quarter-finals
United States 2–0 New Zealand
Wambach  27'
Leroux  87'		 Report
Attendance: 10,441[10]

Semi-finals
Canada 3–4 (a.e.t.) United States
Sinclair  22', 67', 73' Report Rapinoe  54' (cnr.), 70'
Wambach  80' (pen.)
Morgan  120+3'
Attendance: 26,630[11]

Gold medal match
United States 2–1 Japan
Lloyd  8', 54' Report Ōgimi  63'
Attendance: 80,203[12]

References
  1. "U.S. Women's National Team Opens 2012 CONCACAF Olympic Women's Qualifying With Record Performance in 14–0 Rout of Dominican Republic". USSoccer.com. Archived from the original on 10 March 2014. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  2. "Morgan Scores Twice as U.S. WNT Defeats Denmark 5–0 to Open 2012 Algarve Cup". United States Soccer Federation. 29 February 2012. Archived from the original on 12 February 2014. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
  3. "U.S. WNT Nets 2–1 Win Against Norway in Algarve Cup". United States Soccer Federation. 2 March 2012. Archived from the original on 31 October 2013. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
  4. "Japan Edges U.S. Women's National Team 1–0 to Take First Place in Group B at 2012 Algarve Cup". United States Soccer Federation. 5 March 2012. Archived from the original on 13 June 2012. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
  5. "U.S. Women's National Team Routs Sweden 4–0 to Take Third Place at 2012 Algarve Cup". United States Soccer Federation. 7 March 2012. Archived from the original on 1 March 2014. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
  6. "2012 WNT Olympic Roster". ussoccer.com. Retrieved 23 June 2012.
  7. "United States – France". FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 25 July 2012. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
  8. "United States – Colombia". FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 28 July 2012. Retrieved 30 July 2012.
  9. "United States – North Korea". FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 31 July 2012. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
  10. "United States – New Zealand". FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 3 August 2012. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
  11. "Canada – United States". FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 6 August 2012. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
  12. "United States – Japan". FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 9 August 2012. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
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