Megan Rapinoe will retire after this NWSL season and this, her fourth World Cup. Rapinoe helped to spearhead the U.S. women’s national team’s quest for equal pay and will play later this month in her final World Cup.
The 38-year-old star mainstay entered the news conference, sat down next to Coach Vlatko Andonovski and began the proceedings with “a really deep sense of peace and gratitude and excitement” in giving the news. She stated it now, she said, partly so it would be out of the way before the USWNT travels to New Zealand on Monday to begin trying to win a third straight World Cup title. She will complete this World Cup and her season with the OL Reign in Seattle.
“I could never have imagined where this beautiful game would have taken me,” she said. “I feel so honored to have represented the country and the foundation for so many years.” She said, “I understand it is incredibly rare for athletes of any stature to go out in their own way and on their own terms.”
It is with a deep sense of peace & gratitude that I have decided this will be my final season playing this beautiful game. I never could have imagined the ways in which soccer would shape & change my life forever, but by the look on this little girl’s face, she knew all along.
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