Friday night was Megan Rapinoe's last regular season home game in Seattle with the OL Reign, the team she's played with for her entire 11-year NWSL career.
OL Reign forward Megan Rapinoe blows a kiss during a ceremony honoring her career, after the team's NWSL soccer match against the Washington Spirit on Friday, Oct. 6, 2023, in Seattle. The Spirit and the Reign played to a scoreless draw in Rapinoe's final regular-season home game before her retirement at the end of the season.
In a news conference before her last home game with the OL Reign in Seattle, Rapinoe reflected on how this goodbye felt different from the one with the U.S. Women's National Team. Unlike the national team, which has an ever-changing roster of players and coaches, the Reign has remained a home base she could always count on.
She had been playing professionally for just a short time when her career was launched to a new level at the Women's World Cup in 2011. Her last-second assist in the quarterfinals to Abby Wambach tied the game with Brazil and became an, was perfect."It was a much better cross than it was a goal. Everybody who knows and watches and plays soccer knows that.""For me, she's top," says Becky Sauerbrunn, a veteran of the U.S. Women's National Team.
"There has just been a whole population of people waiting for Rapinoe to fail," says Linehan."And there is a human cost to that. ... I don't want to erase that, because I think that is something that she has had to deal with."
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