U.S. women's national team head coach Emma Hayes has a reputation for always thinking ahead, and her first post-Olympics roster announced on Thursday shows why. Rather than clinging to the group that won Olympic gold in August,

The United States women's national team will compete in a trio of friendlies in October and head coach Emma Hayes has named a 26-player roster for the upcoming training camps ahead of those matches. The squad will face Iceland and Argentina in their first matches post-Olympics and the first games at home on U.

The U.S. women’s national team (USWNT) is back following its gold medal run in France this summer, with head coach Emma Hayes naming a 26-player training roster for their upcoming friendlies. Eighteen of the Olympians will return for these matches against Iceland and Argentina at the end of the month,