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.

Forward Trinity Rodman will miss a trio of upcoming matches for the U.S. women's national soccer team as she continues to recover from a back injury.

Gotham FC's Yazmeen Ryan is one of six players called up who haven't played for the U.S. before, and one of three who are heading to their first senior national team camp.

Six uncapped players will join head coach Emma Hayes' 26-player roster for the United States women's national team's first matches since winning the Olympic gold medal in women's soccer in August.

But I’ve got memories.” And just like that, we witnessed Emma Hayes come to terms with not receiving a gold medal at the Paris Olympics. Although history has shown that coaches rarely receive this special distinction at the Summer Games,