Casey Phair, a half-Korean teenage forward, was named to the Korean national football team for the upcoming FIFA Women’s World Cup on Wednesday.

At the National Football Center in Paju, 40 kilometers northwest of Seoul, head coach Colin Bell unveiled his 23-player roster for the July 20-Aug. 20 tournament, co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand, along with two reserves.

Phair, born to an American father and a Korean mother in the United States, is the first player of mixed descent to make the senior Korean women’s national football squad.

Phair had a star turn for Korea in April in the qualifiers for the 2024 Asian Football Confederation U-17 Women’s Asian Cup. She grabbed a brace in Korea’s 16-0 rout of Tajikistan, and then scored a hat trick to help Korea beat Hong Kong 12-0.

Phair had been training with the Players Development Academy in New Jersey before earning a callup to Bell’s World Cup training camp late 추천 last month.

At 16, Phair is also the youngest player to represent Korea at a World Cup.

Korea will host Haiti at 5 p.m. Saturday at Seoul World Cup Stadium for their final tuneup match before traveling Down Under.

Korea will open Group H action against Colombia on July 25, followed by Morocco on July 30 and Germany on Aug. 3.

This is Korea’s fourth appearance at the Women’s World Cup. They’ve been to the knockout stage once, reaching the round of 16 in Canada in 2015