United States women’s national team legend and icon Kelley O’Hara had a bittersweet conclusion to her career as injuries ended her final season early.
She had planned to retire after the 2024 NWSL season, but was forced to hang up her boots in September.
Her club, Gotham FC, announced she was on the season-ending injury list meaning the Bats’ 2-1 victory vs. Houston Dash on Sept. 8 was her O'Hara's final appearance.
Canada's Christine Sinclair, the world's top international goal scorer among both women and men, said on Friday she will retire from professional soccer at the end of the 2024 NWSL season in November.
Sinclair, whose 190 international goals is the most among both men and women, retired from the Canadian team last December. She is currently in her 12th season with the NWSL's Portland Thorns, who wrap up their regular season on Nov. 1 and are currently sitting in a playoff spot.
Christine Sinclair retires
United States women's national team forward Trinity Rodman exited the field area in a wheelchair during the Washington Spirit's 3-0 loss to the Kansas City Current on Friday, which her agent attributed to an "intense back spasm."
That's what Mike Senkowski told The Washington Post Saturday about Rodman, adding her back remained bothersome the morning after.
Trinity Rodman injury
Ashley Hatch and Trinity Rodman led the Washington Spirit over the visiting Houston Dash 3-0 on Sunday.
The Spirit (14-4-2, 44 points) had no problems defeating Houston (3-12-5, 14 points) even without leading goal scorer Ouleymata Sarr. Instead, Hatch scored twice and Rodman had a goal and an assist to extend Washington's league unbeaten streak to five matches.
Trinity Rodman goal vs Houston Dash
Trinity Rodman is not slowing down and continues to be in hot-form in 2024.
U.S. women’s national team forward, Trinity Rodman, scored a fantastic solo goal to ignite the Washington Spirit’s comeback win against Portland Thorns on Saturday.
Watch: Trinity Rodman celebrates goal with Magic Johnson
The 22-year-old received the ball at the edge of the box, faked a shot, took on two defenders and hit a perfect low-driven shot to put the score level.
Alex Morgan lived her last-ever professional soccer game, as she made her final career appearance for the San Diego Wave in their NWSL match against North Carolina Courage on Sunday.
Despite the extreme heat wave in Southern California this weekend, fans in San Diego filled the seats of Snapdragon Stadium, eager to watch the U.S. women’s national team legend say goodbye to her 13-year career.
Alex Morgan will play her final soccer game on Sunday with San Diego Wave FC and won’t ever make a return to the field. In a Friday press conference, the United States women’s national team legend said she had no plans of perusing coaching.
“I don’t think coaching is in my future,” Morgan said. “I’ve found my calling in investing in women’s sports and doing as much as I can to give as big as a platform to women’s sports as possible.”
An honor at a Washington Nationals game proved costly for standout Washington Spirit midfielder Croix Bethune.
The U.S. national team player was placed on the season-ending injury list on Wednesday after sustaining a torn meniscus away from training last week, the team announced.
Spirit coach Jonatan Giraldez filled in the rest of the story: Bethune was injured while throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at a Nationals game.
Croix Bethune first pitch injury
Donovan had some interesting things to say about U.S. Soccer.
U.S. men’s national team legend, Landon Donovan, was invited as a guest on Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast, with the former U.S. goalscorer giving some pretty interesting takes on the state of the men’s national team, the possibility of coaching the United States, what we can expect from the extraofficial appointment of Mauricio Pochettino and the brewing problem of the USMNT — youth soccer.
The National Women's Soccer League and the NWSL Players Association have agreed to a collective bargaining agreement that will eliminate the draft, guarantee contracts and grant unrestricted free agency to all players.
The deal runs through the 2030 season and already has been ratified by the players. It replaces the previous CBA that was set to expire in 2026.
New NWSL CBA details