United States women’s team legend Carla Overbeck will coach a team dubbed ‘US Women’ next month at The Soccer Tournament, a $1 million, winner-take-all event in Cary, N.C.
Overbeck, the captain of the USWNT’s 1999 World Cup-winning team, will be joined by several other former U.S. players on staff for the TST event, including Mia Hamm and Carli Lloyd as assistants.
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The Soccer Tournament debuted last year as a winner-take-all event that had a lone women’s team in the field, a US Women’s team led by 2015 World Cup champion Heather O’Reilly.
This year, TST has expanded to include an exclusive, eight-team women’s event with a $1 million prize, separate from the 48-team men’s field with the same amount of money on the line.
“There are not many moments where we have former national team players and staff all together, so being a part of this amazing squad was something I have been really looking forward to,” Lloyd said in a statement.
“Heather has assembled a great team and has put a lot of work into pushing for a women’s TST to happen. Although I would have loved to play this summer with a lot of my former teammates, I’ll be cheering and coaching from the sidelines with all the other legendary staff.”
