The 27-year-old Chinese player plays for Dallas regularly, and her passport was lost in the mail when it was sent to the United States.
“It is very unfortunate that I cannot be with my sisters this time,” Li Yueru says on social media in China.
The 2.01-metre-tall star player was China's top scorer at the Paris Olympics two years ago. Now China opens the World Cup against the United States on Friday.
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