New York-. Before Megan Rapinoetwo-time world champion with United Statewe will say goodbye to picking soccer American on September 24 in a friendly match against South Africa, the local Football Association said on Tuesday.
The match that will mark the closing of the striker’s path to his team will be held at Soldier Field in Chicago.
Rapinoe (38 years old) announced last July her retirement from soccer at the end of the current American Women’s League season, in which she competes with OL Reign.
The legendary American player will conclude her career with the national team with 203 matches, a number that only 14 players have achieved in the country’s history.
As a US international, Rapinoe scored 63 goals and provided 73 assists. He made his debut in 2006 and made history with world titles in 2015 and 2019.
The federation said Rapinoe will be honored before the game in Chicago, and will not play in the first game in Cincinnati on September 21.
Rapinoe announced before the World Cup, weeks before she won the Spain national team, that she would retire when the National Women’s Soccer League season ended in November.
The 11-year NFL veteran is scheduled to play her final regular season game for the OL Reign at Lumen Field in Seattle on Oct. 6 against the Washington Spirit.
“People may think that the end of my career will bring me sadness, but when I think about the more than 30 years I have spent in this game, my dominant feelings are joy and gratitude,” Rapinoe said in a statement issued by the US Soccer Federation. . .
She added: “It has been an amazing journey. It will be special to have this last opportunity to play for my country in front of our amazing fans and to have the opportunity to thank my teammates.”
The 2019 FIFA World Player of the Year was denied a third World Cup title in Australia and New Zealand when the USA were eliminated by Sweden in the round of 16, following a penalty shootout in which Rapinoe missed her effort.
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Rapinoe, an LGBT rights advocate who has lent her voice to a variety of social justice issues in the United States, last year received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States, bestowed by President Joe Biden.
On grass, he has competed in four World Cup finals in Germany in 2011, Canada in 2015, France in 2019 and this year in Australia and New Zealand, teaming up with the Olympic gold medal win for the United States in London 2012.
He helped the United States win the Olympic gold medal in London in 2012 in one of his three Olympic appearances.
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