U.S. girls’s nationwide workforce goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher is retiring from worldwide soccer, the game’s nationwide governing physique stated on Monday, months after she helped seize Olympic gold.
The steely-nerved 36-year-old is extensively thought of among the many biggest goalkeepers after she recorded 12 clear sheets and allowed solely a dozen objectives in 22 begins on the World Cup and Olympics.
She’s going to play her closing two video games with the U.S. workforce, friendlies towards England and the Netherlands, in London on November 30 and The Hague on December 3, respectively.
“After I started this journey, I by no means may have imagined the place it might take me, and now I discover myself so grateful for all of the unimaginable teammates that I’ve shared the sector with,” the twice World Cup winner stated in a press release.
“This has been a particular workforce to be part of and I’m past happy with what we’ve got achieved each on and off the sector.”
Naeher, who earned her a hundredth cap this yr after a decade of donning the crimson, white and blue, intends to play the 2025 season with the NWSL facet Chicago Stars.
Revealed – November 26, 2024 04:00 am IST
