And the games begin!

It has been a whopping 7 months since our last international match! As much fun as it is to play small games against each other and the occasional scrimmage against some of the men's national team, it was nice to final

ly put on the uniform, walk out onto the field, and stand proud while the National Anthem played.

And of course, for it to be against Argentina was even better. As part of the Pan American region, Argentina is probably our biggest rival and one of the teams we most frequently compete against. With their victory against us last spring in the Pan Am Cup, they prevented us from solidifying a spot in the World Cup, sending us to a World Cup Qualifier. One of which we are still waiting to hear the location of for this upcoming spring, we are keeping our fingers crossed for San Diego in late March!!

Our recent series against Argentina, November 4th -12th, we competed in 5 games over the course of 7 days. To say the least it is very mentally and physically taxing to play that many games at that level in such a short time frame, however something not one of us would pass up the opportunity to participate in. We came out of the series with 1 tie and 4 losses. Definitely a position to grow from! With a young USA squad we learned a lot of lessons and will take the experience with us as we begin our 2 month training for our World Cup Qualifier!