2023-11-06 09:48:21
He last Dance from the legendary career of the American striker Megan Rapinoe will be played in the best possible scenario, in the final for the title of the NWSL, the United States professional women’s soccer leagueafter the OL Reign of Seattle will eliminate the San Diego Wave in the semi-finals.
Rapinoe, who announced that she will leave football at the end of this season, qualified for the playoffs with the Reign on the last day of the regular season and continued her path in the postseason until reaching the grand final against New York Gotham FC.
It will be played on November 11 in the same stadium where the Reign triumphed against the Wave, the Snapdragon Stadium in San Diego.
The stellar duel between Rapinoe and Alex Morgan, two forwards who wrote the history of the American team, was decided by a solitary goal at the beginning of the restart.
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Veronica Latsko scored with a cross that ended up in the back of the net after a rival deflection. That goal unbalanced the match and the Reign managed to defend it until the 95th minute, when their pass to the final was certified.
Family members in the stands
Rapinoe, who wore pink hair as she had already done at her glorious 2019 World Cup, was able to release all her joy.
He had the support of family and friends at the stadium, including his partner Sue Bird, a former WNBA basketball player.
At the end of the clash, Rapinoe stayed for several minutes talking with Morgan, with whom she exchanged a heartfelt hug.
Rapinoe announced that she was leaving soccer on July 8 and since then she has received a series of heartfelt tributes in all the stadiums in which she competed.
Goodbye to the selection
On September 24, the Californian forward said goodbye to the US team in a friendly against South Africa played at Soldier Field in Chicago.
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The double world champion and winner of Olympic gold in London 2012 left ‘Team USA’ with 203 games, 63 goals and 73 assists.
Rapinoe was always clear about the responsibility and privilege of being a soccer player. Therefore, from his youth he used his sport as a platform to raise awareness about human rights. His work was awarded in 2022 with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian distinction in the United States.
A rival full of Spaniards
Together with Alex Morgan, she fought for years until achieving, in 2022, the historic collective agreement that guarantees equal conditions between the American women’s and men’s teams.
“I leave football in a better place than where I found it,” Rapinoe said in an emotional farewell press conference organized in Chicago on the occasion of her farewell to the national team.
He still has one game left before closing his career. It will be the NWSL final, the first for the Reign since 2015.
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The title will be played against Gotham of the Spanish players Esther González and Maitane López, coached by coach Juan Carlos Amorós and tactical director Jesús Botello.
It is the first NWSL final for Gotham, who eliminated the defending champions Portland Thorns in the semifinals.
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