A new era is coming. With the United States women's national team's loss to Sweden, the rebuild has officially begun. The back-to-back World Cup titles are officially in the past. The USWNT are no longer defending champions, so onto the next.
Several key figures will be phased out in the coming years as the U.S. looks to move on from the team that was so successful in 2015 and 2019. The good news, though, is that there are plenty of rising stars worth being excited about as that new era begins.
Some are familiar faces, key players from this World Cup team that got a taste of the bright lights in Australia and New Zealand. Others are a bit further away from breaking through, young prospects still a few years from really making the leap from starlet to superstar.
But who are they? GOAL takes a look at the USWNT rising stars to keep an eye on in the coming years: