U.S. women’s national team to play Olympic tune-up at Children’s Mercy Park

The United States women’s national team will use Children’s Mercy Park for its final tune-up before the Olympics.

The U.S. team is set to face Costa Rica on July 22 inside the home of Sporting Kansas City, which will be its last game before playing in the 2016 Olympics in Brazil. The match at Children’s Mercy Park will start at 8 p.m.

“We will have named our final roster by the time we get to this match, so it will be a great opportunity to get the Olympic team together and have one final tune-up before departing for Brazil,” U.S. national team coach Jill Ellis said in a news release. “It was important for us to play a final game at home, and Kansas City will no doubt give us a fantastic send off.”

The U.S. women will face New Zealand, France and Colombia in the Olympics, starting Aug. 3.

They will visit Children’s Mercy Park for the third time. They tied Canada in a 2011 exhibition and defeated Trinidad and Tobago in 2014 in the CONCACAF Women’s Championship.

Tickets for the match in Kansas City will go on sale at 10 a.m Monday via the U.S. Soccer website and Ticketmaster.

This story was originally published June 14, 2016 at 12:27 PM with the headline "U.S. women’s national team to play Olympic tune-up at Children’s Mercy Park."