With six Washington Spirit players selected — and five others with local ties — almost half the U.S. women’s national soccer team chosen Monday for an upcoming camp and friendlies will feel right at home for the squad’s first appearance at Audi Field.
Following a perfect run at the Concacaf W Championship last month in Mexico, Coach Vlatko Andonovski kept his 23-player group almost entirely intact for matches against Nigeria on Sept. 3 in Kansas City, Kan., and Sept. 6 in Washington.
Five others have local connections: Becky Sauerbrunn, a University of Virginia graduate who played for the Washington Freedom, the Spirit’s predecessor; Emily Fox (Ashburn, Va.