U.S. women’s national team legend and longtime women’s professional soccer player Megan Rapinoe is planning to retire following the 2023 NWSL season, her club OL Reign announced on its website on Saturday.
Rapinoe confirmed the news on her personal Twitter account.
“It is with a deep sense of peace & gratitude that I have decided this will be my final season playing this beautiful game,” Rapinoe wrote, along with a childhood photo. “I never could have imagine the ways in which soccer would shape & change my life forever, but by the look on this little girl’s face, she knew all along.”