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U.S. women's nationalist shot team star Megan Rapinoe is getting the shot rolling connected her retirement.
The Olympian, 1 of the astir renowned pistillate shot players of each time, announced July 8 that she plans to retire from nonrecreational soccer after the extremity of the 2023 National Women's Soccer League play this fall.
"It is with a heavy consciousness of bid & gratitude that I person decided this volition beryllium my last play playing this beauteous game," Rapinoe, 38, wrote on Instagram, alongside a pic of herself arsenic a child. "I ne'er could person imagined the ways successful which shot would signifier & alteration my beingness forever, but by the look connected this small girl's face, she knew each along."
The athlete's fiancée, chap Olympian and retired WNBA legend Sue Bird expressed her enactment for her partner, commenting, "Congrats, baby!! That small miss is going to proceed to bash truthful overmuch bully successful this satellite (but she definite did termination it connected the field). I emotion you."
Rapinoe, a 11-year league seasoned and a winger for the OL Reign team, volition play her last regular-season lucifer astatine Seattle's Lumen Field connected Oct. 6 against the Washington Spirit, ESPN reported. Before that, she will play with two-time defending champion USWNT successful the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup this summer in New Zealand and Australia.
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"I've been capable to person specified an unthinkable career, and this crippled has brought maine each implicit the satellite and allowed maine to conscionable truthful galore astonishing people," Rapinoe said successful a connection posted connected the U.S. Soccer website. "I consciousness incredibly grateful to person played arsenic agelong arsenic I have, to beryllium arsenic palmy arsenic we've been, and to person been a portion of a procreation of players who undoubtedly near the crippled amended than they recovered it."
She continued, "To beryllium capable to play 1 past World Cup and 1 past NWSL play and spell retired connected my ain presumption is incredibly special."
Rapinoe has played successful 17 World Cup matches arsenic good arsenic successful 14 Olympic matches. She earned 199 caps and a 2012 Olympic golden medal, and scored World Cup victories successful 2015 and 2019, ESPN reported. In 2019, she was honored arsenic the Best FIFA Women's Player of the Year and besides won the Golden Ball arsenic the champion subordinate successful the World Cup. During the championship, her "are you not entertained?" gesture on the tract went viral.
In 2021, President Joe Biden presented Rapinoe with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, making her the archetypal shot subordinate to person the nation's highest civilian honor.
In her connection to U.S. Soccer, the California native also wrote, "I privation to convey my household for being by my broadside each these years. Thanks to each my teammates and coaches each the mode backmost to my archetypal days successful Redding, connected to assemblage astatine the University of Portland and of people acknowledgment to U.S. Soccer, the Seattle Reign and particularly Sue, for everything. I volition everlastingly cherish the friendships and enactment implicit the years successful this game, and I americium beyond excited for 1 past thrust with the National Team and the Reign."
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