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BITTERSWEET FAREWELL Wambach’s United States career ends with loss to China PR
But as ESPN reports, her harshest words were for Klinsmann, the German football manager and former player who is now head coach of the USA men’s national soccer team.
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Abby Wambach left her final United States Women’s National Team game tonight to a thunderous standing ovation, but was unable to score the storybook goal her teammates were so desperately trying to assist.
However, staff members convinced Wambach that fans would want the opportunity to say goodbye to her, so she decided to make her farewell plans public in October.
“And I think that’s a piece that’s important because that shows up in the way you play”. Wambach scored four goals in the tournament, something no other American had done before in an Olympics. And I love Fabian Johnson and he plays in Germany and is actually killing it right now after being sent home for “faking an injury”.
“There was a minute at some point in the first half that I just started yelling at them, ‘We need to get a goal”.
Wambach said her teammates apologized profusely to her afterward, but she told them, “There’s nothing to be sorry about”. “That was the one thing on her mind for the last eight years or so”. This team is going to miss her so much. While it’s likely that Wambach will receive significant backlash for the content of her interview, this section, specifically her description of “foreign players”, may receive the most scrutiny.
Not the greatest way to end her career by seeing defeat, but it matters little.
The U.S., which won the Women’s World Cup this summer, had gone 104 home games without losing since falling to Denmark in 2004.
When asked what she would fix about the U.S. men’s team, Wambach again called out Klinsmann, whose team suffered an upset loss to Jamaica in the CONCACAF Gold Cup semi-finals earlier this year.
Abby Wambach walked off the field for the final time like a rock star – mic drop and all. “That’s something I’m really proud of and I’m proud of our coaches and U.S. Soccer for believing in this product and this program so that it can get better”.
Wambach will retire from professional soccer after Wednesday’s friendly with China.
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“The more money that soccer players can make in this country, you’re gonna find our better athletes will be getting more involved in playing soccer”, she said. “They’ve allowed me to express who and what I wanted to be and be the dreamer that I’ve always been”, Wambach said. “Just watching those four goals, that’s what she is all about”.