Mar 31, 2025, 03:54 PM ET
Defender Tierna Davidson will omit america ladies’s nationwide workforce’s upcoming pair of video games towards Brazil because of a knee harm, U.S. Football introduced on Monday.
She has been changed at the roster via Angel Town FC attacker Gisele Thompson.
Davidson, a 2019 Global Cup winner and 2024 Olympic gold medalist, injured her left knee on a non-contact play whilst taking part in for NJ/NY Gotham FC on Friday in a scoreless draw towards the Houston Sprint.
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She was once visibly disappointed and walked off the sphere with help ahead of heading to the locker room ahead of halftime.
Gotham FC has no longer supplied any longer information about the level of the harm. A workforce spokesperson informed ESPN that the membership would offer additional updates quickly.
“Tierna is a warrior, is our captain. It was once devastating seeing her coming off the pitch how she did however then seeing her at the pitch on the finish of the sport, it was once additionally a message from her to the workforce of ways sturdy she is,” Gotham FC trainer Juan Carlos Amorós stated after Friday’s sport.
“I do know that no matter it’s, we are gonna be along with her, we are gonna strengthen her. She’s in secure palms. We’ve got an incredible scientific workforce, and I am hoping [the injury] is the minimal it may be as a result of she’s been remarkable for us and remarkable for her nation.”
USSF stated in a commentary on Monday: “Thompson, 19, was once at first slated to wait to the U.S. Underneath-23 WNT coaching camp happening this week with the U.S. WNT coaching camp at Dignity Well being Sports activities Park in Carson, Calif., however along with her elevation to the senior workforce roster, 19-year-old Portland Thorns midfielder Olivia Moultrie will take her position with the U-23s.”
Davidson in the past tore her ACL in March 2022. She returned to the sphere in early 2023 however overlooked out on a roster spot on the 2023 Global Cup as she endured to regain her shape.
Her absence leaves the USWNT with out each beginning middle backs from the Olympics because the workforce readies to stand Brazil on Saturday and once more subsequent week in a rematch of August’s Olympic ultimate.
The American citizens gained that sport, 1-0 to assert a 5th Olympic gold medal.
Middle again Naomi Girma, who covered up along Davidson in that Olympic ultimate and all the way through the event final 12 months, has no longer performed for the USWNT but in 2025 because of an ongoing calf harm.
