Catarina Macario
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Oct 15, 2026
Steve CavendishGUEST
... a- and, and, and having somebody like ...
Steve CavendishGUEST
So like, the, the, the person I would always point to is like Cat Macario.
Steve CavendishGUEST
Like, she should be, she should be the focal point of that attack, and injuries have kind of kept her from being that now for three, you know, for three years.
Steve CavendishGUEST
She ...
Christen PressHOST
I think, uh, overall the biggest red flag is losing to Spain 2-0 at home against a Spain team that was missing some of their biggest, most important pieces.
Christen PressHOST
And yes, you can argue, like, we're missing Girma, and Sonnet, and Macario, and there's a, a couple-
Tobin HeathHOST
Sam Coffey
Christen PressHOST
... and, uh, uh, Sam Coffey.
Christen PressHOST
That's a lot of star power that Spain was missing, and the luxury Spain has, obviously, with their U20 team winning the World Cup.
Christen PressHOST
Like, they have a very, um, deep, now deep roster of players, but also they have an identity that all of these players know that a lot of players can fit into.
Tobin HeathHOST
Well, it also feels like the, the Spanish players, and correct me if I'm wrong, are, like, out in short-term injury, whereas, like, Naomi Girma, Cat Macario, those are players we haven't seen in a really long time.
Christen PressHOST
Oh, yeah, for sure, and Sonnet.
Liam GrecoHOST
Hayes mentioned that she has never and probably will never have her best 11 available.
Liam GrecoHOST
I think if Macario is available, she's playing in both these matches.
Liam GrecoHOST
Hayes, I would say, definitely has expressed how much Kat is of the utmost importance to the team.
Liam GrecoHOST
I'd say she's probably one of Hayes' first names in the 11 when healthy, but that "when healthy" starts to become more of an asterisk for Macario and less of a guarantee given the injuries she's dealt with.
Liam GrecoHOST
I think that for me, there's no way that Ali Setnor and Jaden Shaw are not at the level of this team.
Liam GrecoHOST
There were so many players at this camp who I was like, "This is not national team-level performances." And I'm not gonna name them individually, because I do think, to be candid, it would be much quicker for me to go through the names I thought did well in match one than did not do good.
19 MINS LATER
Liam GrecoHOST
She didn't just knock on Emma Hayes' door.
Liam GrecoHOST
She, like, jumped into it and karate kicked it right down.
Ali KriegerHOST
You have a Sam Coffey in the six, even a Sonnet in the six.
Ali KriegerHOST
You have a Catarina Macario, depending on her recovery timeline, up in the nine as well, with Sophia Wilson.
Ali KriegerHOST
I mean, you can have two up top.
Ali KriegerHOST
There's different variations that I think, um, now w- especially with Ashley Sanchez in the squad.
Ali KriegerGUEST
You have a Sam Coffey in the six, even a Sonnet in the six.
Ali KriegerGUEST
You have a Catarina Macario, depending on her recovery timeline, up in the nine as well with Sophia Wilson.
Ali KriegerGUEST
I mean, you can have two up to- There's different variations that I think, um, now w- especially with Ashley Sanchez in the squad.
Alexis NunesHOST
Yeah.
Liam GrecoHOST
And in a way, it's kind of a very hard place for her to be in because they started narrowing that funnel down to look at that core group for 2027.
Liam GrecoHOST
And then with so many injuries to that group, Macario's recovery taking longer than expected, Sonnett, Moultrie, I just spoke about Girma and Coffey having to drop out.
Liam GrecoHOST
There's a lot of holes on this team with players that you'd have expected to start at that World Cup next summer that are unfortunately not part of the camp this go around.
Liam GrecoHOST
That was really meant to feel like a World Cup test in a lot of ways, and so I'm interested to see how many minutes Hayes gives these uncapped players.
11 MINS LATER
Liam GrecoHOST
If European style team plays a deeper low block and their defense drops back more, Torden's someone who's really good at operating in the half space on the half turn, meaning that she can drop back from that front line, almost enter a 10 hybrid nine role where she can receive the ball and distribute to her wingers, and I think Hayes very much loves that attribute in a number nine.
Liam GrecoHOST
We've seen Sophia Wilson thrive in that role at the Olympics.
Liam GrecoHOST
It's part of Triple Espresso, and so it's good to see that the US are trying out some new number nine options because there definitely is a void there with Cat Macario's injury.
Liam GrecoHOST
Hayes did mention in their press conference that Macario is someone she hopes will be back by January camp, and although she's not gonna be at the World Cup qualifying matches, presumably because she's on the NCI list for the Wave, but I do think it's important to mention that Hayes very much still sees this role as an open spot for the team.