Soccer Player Announces Retirement With Dramatic Tweets — Abby Wambach Twitter

How Abby Wambach’s soccer career has evolved over the years.

Fans cheer for US forward Abby Wambach before an worldwide friendly soccer match between the United States and China in New Orleans, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015.

Wambach formally announced her retirement at the end of October of this year.

“I’ll share something that I shared with Jurgen, actually when I got left off the [2014 World Cup] team”, he said. After the big win, Wambach made headlines again when she ran up to her wife, Sarah Huffman, in the stands and shared a sweet embrace and kiss. I didn’t want this Victory Tour to turn into the farewell Abby tour.

How Wambach will be remembered in her hometown and around the world.

Coach Jill Ellis summed up the feelings of many in U.S women’s soccer.

“I would give up all my individual awards for what we just did tonight and it’s the truth”, she said in the moments afterward.

And it worked for many years, because Abby was tough, fearless, and willing to put her body on the line for her teammates.

The World Cup victory capped an unmatched 14-year career with the national team.

“I think it was pretty fitting in that I played 70 minutes and we weren’t able to score a goal”, Wambach said during a postgame interview on FS1.

She even apologized to US Soccer president Sunil Gulati for remarks on a podcast blasting Klinsmann, the man charged with getting the US men to the 2018 World Cup in Russian Federation.

This match is the second visit for the U.S. Women to Louisiana, but it’s the first time they’re playing in the dome. The team is 117-8-2 in matches in which Wambach has scored a goal.

“It’s unfortunate she’s retiring, but I hope she continues to shine in the next stage of her life”. “Although he says he has I don’t think that he has”, said Wambach, whose 184 global goals are more than any other football player in history, male or female. In added time, Emily Sonnett’s header went just over the cross bar.

Qualifying for the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games is next on the radar for the squad.

Wambach won’t be on the field in Rio – she says she will definitely be a fan watching and supporting them though – but the foundation she helped create appears strong. “I feel blessed every day”, said Boughton.

The players claimed that staging the tournament on artificial turf – widely considered an inferior surface by elite players – amounted to gender discrimination because the men’s World Cup has always been held on real grass. She also blasted all the “egos” in “our men’s program”.