Megan Rapinoe Announces Plans to Retire From Professional Soccer

U.S. girls’s nationwide soccer group star Megan Rapinoe is getting the ball rolling on her retirement.

The Olympian, one of the vital famend feminine soccer gamers of all time, introduced July 8 that she plans to retire from skilled soccer after the top of the 2023 Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League season this fall.

“It’s with a deep sense of peace & gratitude that I’ve determined this might be my remaining season enjoying this lovely recreation,” Rapinoe, 38, wrote on Instagram, alongside a pic of herself as a toddler. “I by no means might have imagined the methods through which soccer would form & change my life perpetually, however by the look on this little woman’s face, she knew all alongside.”

The athlete’s fiancée, fellow Olympian and retired WNBA legend Sue Fowl expressed her help for her companion, commenting, “Congrats, child!! That little woman goes to proceed to take action a lot good on this world (however she certain did kill it on the sector). I like you.”