For USWNT prospects, it's now or never to impress before Hayes finalizes team

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Since last year's Olympic gold medal triumph, U.S. women's national team head coach Emma Hayes has been handing out international debuts like Oprah Winfrey's Ultimate Car Giveaway: "You get a cap! You get a cap!"

Four players joined their first senior USWNT training camp this week, bringing Hayes' tally to 27 first-time call-ups since arriving on the sidelines just over a year ago. Nineteen players to date have earned their first USWNT caps under Hayes.

All of which has amounted to the most drastic overhaul in the 40-year history of the world's most successful international women's soccer team. Recent USWNT lineups have been the youngest and least experienced in over two…