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Abby Wambach says she would fire Jürgen Klinsmann (links)
The U.S. Women’s National Team star appeared on The Bill Simmons podcast Tuesday to discuss her farewell tour as she prepares to play her final game Wednesday against China in New Orleans.
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Abby Wambach has been playing soccer for 30 years, and she’s scored more goals than any other person (woman or man) in the history of global soccer.
“She’s one of the special players I’ve met in my career”. Wambach headed the ball to tie the game in stoppage time and went on to win in penalty kicks. “It’s evolved. It’s harder than it ever used to be”. The standard is even higher. Your body just knows when it knows….
“[Women’s soccer] is now better than I found it”, Wambach told the Times. Fellow World Cup champ Alex Morgan spoke to Us in July at a separate Tampax Pearl event about her role models. It is that fact that led Wambach to insist to coach Jill Ellis that the team would be fine without her. She won two Olympic gold medals and a World Cup title in 2015. “Everybody needs to get that in their head”.
Wambach, who has scored an global record 184 goals in 254 games for her country, said she is not a fan of Klinsmann’s heavy use of dual-citizen players and that the former Germany worldwide should be relieved from his job. I’ll always remember the World Cup qualifier game in 2010 against Mexico (which, I’ll admit, I didn’t see live, but watched later online). But after speaking with my agent and my teammates, they thought that it would be – it’d be really meaningful for the fans to be able to get to say their goodbyes too.
The first half of famed American striker Abby Wambach’s last game ended in a scoreless tie in the friendly against China on Wednesday. The athlete reflected on the positive moments she’s had with her teammates over the course of her 14-year career with the Women’s National Team.
Yet, not everything has run smoothly.
Before losing to China on Wednesday, the US – who won the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Canada this summer – had not lost in 104 matches on home soil, winning 91 and drawing the rest.
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The commerical shows Wambach sitting in a locker room emotionally reflecting on her career, clearing out her U.S. Women’s National Team locker and then throwing her nameplate in the trash as she exits.