[U.S. WOMEN] U.S. women’s national team coach Pia Sundhage has named the 20 players who will represent the USA at the2012 Concacaf Olympic women’s qualifying tournament that begins Thursday at Vancouver’s BC Place. UCLA’s Sydney Leroux, recently selected by the Atlanta Beat asthe No. 1 pick in the 2012 WPS draft, is the lone player who wasn’t on the 2011 U.S. Women’s World Cup team. Only goalie Jill Loyden and defender Stephanie Cox from the team that went to Germany last summer were not retained.

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