{"id":26982,"date":"2025-08-21T15:54:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/uswnt-vs-new-zealand-in-kansas-city-october-friendly-and-more\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T15:54:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:54:58","slug":"uswnt-vs-new-zealand-in-kansas-city-october-friendly-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/uswnt-vs-new-zealand-in-kansas-city-october-friendly-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"USWNT vs. New Zealand in Kansas City: October Friendly and more"},"content":{"rendered":"The United States women&#8217;s national soccer team will face New Zealand on October 29 in Kansas City, Missouri, according to an announcement by the United States Soccer Federation.\n\nThis will be the third and last match of the October international window.\n\nPreviously, the USWNT will play two matches against Portugal. The first will be played at Subaru Stadium in Chester, Pennsylvania, on October 23, and will feature a farewell ceremony for USWNT legend Alex Morgan before the start of the match.\n\nThe second match against Portugal will take place three days later at Pratt &amp; Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field, in East Hartford, Connecticut.\n\nThe CPKC Stadium in Kansas City will be the venue for the match against New Zealand, which will also include a double match with the United States men&#8217;s national deaf soccer team.\n\nIn addition, Alyssa Naeher, former US international and current goalkeeper for the Chicago Stars, will also be honored in her home state with a special ceremony before the match.\n\nNew Zealand is ranked number 33 in the world ranking.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0703%2Fr1514255_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>El USWNT jugar\u00e1 tres partidos en la ventana internacional de octubre.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nThe last time the Football Ferns faced the United States was in two friendlies in January 2023, with victories for the United States by 4-0 and 5-0, respectively.\n\nThis will be the 22nd encounter between the United States and New Zealand.\n\nThe Kiwis&#8217; only victory in the series came in the opening match between the two teams in 1987.\n\nThe USWNT has an 8-2-0 record so far in 2025, while coach Emma Hayes focuses on long-term preparation for the 2027 FIFA Women&#8217;s World Cup to be held in Brazil.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States women&#8217;s national soccer team will face New Zealand on October 29 in Kansas City, Missouri, according to an announcement by the United States Soccer Federation. This will be the third and last match of the October international window. Previously, the USWNT will play two matches against Portugal. The first will be played [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[683,7639,607,2627],"class_list":{"0":"post-26982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-october","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-uswnt"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}