(Reuters) - The top-ranked U.S. women’s team will head to Europe in April to face Sweden as part of their preparations for the Tokyo Olympics where they will try to reclaim the gold medal that eluded them at the 2016 Rio Games, U.S. Soccer announced on Tuesday. Fifth-ranked Sweden have six wins in 40 meetings with the United States, including a stunning upset in the quarter-finals at Rio en route to their runners-up finish to Germany. “We want to play as many of the top teams as possible to prepare for the Olympics and Sweden certainly falls into that category,” said U.S. head coach Vlatko Andonovski. “They are proven winners, have tremendously athletic players, are led by an excellent coach and are tactically savvy and experienced. Last month, the United States won the four-team round-robin SheBelieves Cup tournament for a fourth time after clean sheet victories over Canada, Brazil and Argentina in Florida.

Source: Egypt Today March 09, 2021 16:52 UTC