For the past decade, Abby Wambach has been the linchpin of the US women’s national team, a towering presence up front who became the world’s all-time leader in goals in global play.
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Abby Wambach’s professional soccer career came to an end on Wednesday, when she wore the USWNT jersey for the final time.
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The Americans then beat Shuang and China 1-0 in the quarterfinals of the 2015 World Cup in Canada that the US ultimately won.
“I know everybody wanted to get me a goal”.
USING HER HEAD: Wambach’s most famous goal came against Brazil in the quarterfinals at the 2011 World Cup. Wambach scored 184 goals for the national team, the most ever in worldwide soccer, men or women.
In a podcast inverview with Bill Simmons, the worldwide women’s leading goal-scorer said she’d fire Klinsmann, and that the men’s team has too many large egos to be successful.
“I also believe that the way he has changed and brought in a bunch of these foreign guys is just not something that I believe in wholeheartedly”.
Wang Shuan scored for a China in the 58th minute of the match, volleying a cross from the right from teammate Wang Shanshan. “Sorry, Sunil [Gulati, US Soccer president], sorry, US Soccer, but I don’t think the litmus test on him has worked”. She will be missed, but will also always be remembered and respected for her contributions to the game of soccer.
Abby Wambach reacts during a presentation to her before the team’s friendly against China. “So, forget me. Because the day I’m forgotten is the day we will succeed”.
I’ve felt pride for Rochester-native Abby Wambach for a long time. The U.S. women had gone 91-0-13 since. The U.S. won seven matches and drew one while outscoring their opponents 40-2 before falling on Wednesday.
Not the greatest way to end her career by seeing defeat, but it matters little.
“Everything kind of just hit me that this was the last time I’d be taking the jersey off, the last time I’d be hanging out with my teammates in the locker room”. Wambach was part of a generation of American soccer players that helped bring the sport into the public eye, where they continued to prove their excellence to a hesitant sports audience. We love you, Abby.
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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.
