Soccer star Megan Rapinoe announced her plans to retire at the end of the current NWSL season on Saturday.
“This is going to be my last season, my last world cup and my last season in the NWSL,” Rapinoe said at a press conference. to finish, but I just want to thank everyone, you guys, Vlatko, USA Soccer, you know, literally everyone I’ve ever played with, all my coaches.”
The star of the United States women’s soccer team said she was “honored to have represented this country and this federation for so many years.”
“It really has been the best thing I’ve ever done, something I’m very grateful for,” she said.
Rapinoe confirmed the news on her Twitter account, along with a photo of her as a child.
“It is with a deep sense of peace and gratitude that I have decided that this will be my last season playing this beautiful game,” he wrote. “I could never have imagined the ways soccer would forever shape and change my life, but by the look on this girl’s face, she knew all along.”
