Soccer | The USWNT dropped to fourth within the newest FIFA rankings.

The USA Girls’s Nationwide Crew has dropped to fourth place within the newest FIFA rankings, the bottom level since FIFA started rating girls’s groups in 2003.

Earlier than Friday, the U.S. girls had by no means been ranked decrease than No. 2 on this planet. On this order, Spain, England and France are among the many high three.

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The USWNT defeated Brazil 1-0 within the Concacaf W Gold Cup ultimate on Sunday, however a 2-0 loss to Mexico within the ultimate group stage match despatched them down within the general rankings, in line with FIFA.

Mexico fell to thirty first general on Friday, up from the earlier thirty fifth. Mexico did not qualify for final yr’s World Cup.

Mexico defeated the US for the second time in February, with targets from Lizbeth Owle and Myra Palio in a gaggle stage victory. It was the primary aim conceded by the USA towards a CONCACAF opponent in 33 video games.

The U.S. enters the sport 40-1-1 towards its continental rival, with its solely earlier loss coming in 2010 throughout Girls’s World Cup qualifying, a 2-1 loss.

It was the primary loss for the U.S. below interim coach Twila Kilgore, who took over after the group’s dramatic round-of-16 exit from the Girls’s World Cup final summer season.

Chelsea supervisor Emma Hayes will substitute Kilgore this spring.

The USWNT has received each Concacaf match it has participated in, for a complete of 15 titles from the area.

The latest match marked the primary Girls’s Gold Cup, created to provide girls’s groups within the Concacaf area extra aggressive matches. Twelve groups performed group stage matches in three cities: Carson, San Diego and Houston.

“I feel it simply reveals how far the sport is coming and there is not any straightforward recreation anymore,” Kilgore stated after the loss to Mexico. “And if we do not maintain enterprise and act, that is to be anticipated.”

The USWNT will subsequent play two SheBelieves Cup matches in April. The following FIFA rankings will probably be launched on June 14.