United States ladies’s nationwide workforce goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher is retiring from worldwide soccer. The USWNT the information on Monday, with Naeher posting a on social media quickly after, thanking her household, coaches and teammates.
“With an immense gratitude and really considerate consideration, I’ve determined to retire from the worldwide recreation following the conclusion of those matches in Europe,” Naeher wrote. “This has been a particular workforce to be a aside of and I’m past pleased with what we’ve got achieved each on and off the sector.”
The 36-year-old goalkeeper is at the moment with the workforce in Europe, making ready for the ultimate two friendlies of 2024. These friendlies — towards England on Nov. 30 and towards the Netherlands on Dec. 3 — will probably be Naeher’s remaining video games with the USWNT.
Naeher, one of many biggest U.S. keepers of all time, led the workforce to glory on the 2019 World Cup and 2024 Paris Olympics. She is the one goalie in ladies’s soccer historical past to earn shutouts in each a World Cup Last and a Olympic gold medal recreation.
Naeher holds the third-most goalkeeper caps (113), begins (110), wins (88) and shutouts (68) behind USWNT goalies Hope Solo and Briana Scurry. She earned her first first USWNT cap in 2014, and traveled to the 2015 World Cup as a backup for Solo, earlier than turning into beginning keeper in 2017.
Regardless of stepping down from the worldwide stage, Naeher will nonetheless compete with the Chicago Purple Stars within the 2025 NWSL season.
