Manaka Matsukubo headlined the North Carolina Courage\u2019s participation in the June\/July international window, getting the start against Spain in Japan\u2019s lone friendly of the window.<\/p>\n
Manaka Matsukubo \u2013 Japan vs Spain<\/strong><\/p>\n Manaka got the start for Japan in the 3-1 friendly loss against Spain, her first in an official match after shining as a starter in a training match earlier in the year. The Courage\u2019s young magician played the full 90\u2019, going seven for 11 on duels.<\/p>\n While not directly involved in the goal, Manaka\u2019s near-post run helped open the space for Utah\u2019s Mina Tanaka to receive the ball at the top of the box and open the scoring.<\/p>\n Denise O\u2019Sullivan \u2013 Ireland vs. United States<\/strong><\/p>\n Denise O\u2019Sullivan was called up for, but missed, both of Ireland\u2019s friendlies against the United States due to injury. Ireland fell 4-0 in both matches.<\/p>\n Jaedyn Shaw and Riley Jackson \u2013 United States U-23 Training Camp<\/strong><\/p>\n Both Jaedyn Shaw and Riley Jackson took part in the United States U-23 Training Camp during the window. After a pair of friendlies with their German counterparts during the last window, the U-23 squad did not play a match during the window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manaka Matsukubo headlined the North Carolina Courage\u2019s participation in the June\/July international window, getting the start against Spain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-230021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114779510946974033","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}