Alyssa Naeher, the one girls’s goalkeeper with shutouts in a World Cup and Olympic last, introduced her retirement from worldwide soccer on Monday after two last United States group matches.
The 36-year-old netminder is with the US squad coaching in London for matches on Saturday in opposition to England and within the Netherlands on December 3.
Naeher was on two World Cup champion squads, in reserve to Hope Solo on the 2015 US squad and enjoying each minute of the US 2019 World Cup title run, and backstopped the US girls to gold at this yr’s Paris Olympics.
Naeher blanked the Netherlands 2-0 within the 2019 FIFA World Cup last in France and defeated Brazil 1-0 on this yr’s gold medal match at Paris.
“Having the chance to be part of the USWNT for the previous 15 years has been the best honor,” stated Naeher.
“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 unbelievable teammates that I’ve shared the sphere with, teammates which have changed into lifelong pals.
“This has been a particular group to be part of and I’m past happy with what we’ve got achieved each on and off the sphere. The reminiscences I’ve made over time will final me a lifetime.”
Naeher, whose first US cap got here in a 7-0 win over Argentina in Brazil in 2014, has a US profession report of 88-6 with 14 drawn and a 0.50 goals-against common.
Naeher had 12 clear sheets with 12 objectives allowed in 22 Olympic and Ladies’s World Cup matches.
She’s going to proceed to play for the Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League’s Chicago Stars within the 2025 marketing campaign.
Naeher was the NWSL 2014 Goalkeeper of the Yr for Boston earlier than being traded to Chicago in 2015 and she or he is the NWSL all-time chief in saves and appearances by a goalkeeper.
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