Australia on Thursday pulled out of two exhibition matches that were to be part of the United States women’s national team’s World Cup victory tour, but U.S. Soccer said the games in Detroit and Birmingham, Ala., would go ahead as scheduled.
The United States and Australia were scheduled to play at Ford Field in Detroit on Sept. 17 and Legion Field in Birmingham on Sept. 20, part of a series of celebratory matches that began last month with two easy victories over Costa Rica and continues in October with matches against Brazil in Seattle and Orlando, Fla.