America Girls’s Nationwide Staff mentioned goodbye to a different legend. The crew honored defender Kelley O’Hara in a ceremony throughout a pleasant towards Iceland on Sunday.
O’Hara, a two-time World Cup winner and Olympic gold medalist with the USWNT, racked up 160 appearances and three targets throughout 13 years on the U.S. senior crew. The crew supplied $16 tickets to the sport in Nashville, in honor of O’Hara’s 160 caps. She was honored with a No. 160 jersey commemorating these appearances.
The 36-year-old American defender introduced her retirement in Could, saying that she would . All through the season, O’Hara performed minimal video games for her membership, NJ/NY Gotham FC, as a consequence of harm. She was ultimately to the season-ending harm listing with power knee degradation, bringing about her retirement just a few months sooner than anticipated.
O’Hara is one in all simply 12 U.S. gamers to be named to 4 World Cup rosters, and was named to the FIFA FIFPro World XI for 2019 after her efficiency on the 2019 World Cup.
The defender’s final recreation for the USA was within the 2023 World Cup, when she was introduced off the bench in additional time to assist the USWNT by means of a penalty shootout towards Sweden within the Spherical of 16. The U.S. went on to lose the shootout, resulting in its earliest-ever World Cup exit.
Sunday’s recreation obtained to a gradual begin, with the U.S. happening 1-0 within the first half after a aim from Iceland ahead Karólína Lea Vilhjálmsdóttir. USA responded with three unanswered targets within the second half to safe .
The crew additionally took time previous to the match to honor ahead Mallory Swanson for reaching her a hundredth cap. Defender Emily Sonnett was honored for her a hundredth cap in the course of the on Thursday.
The USWNT honor Mallory Swanson for reaching her a hundredth cap in the course of the Olympic gold medal match 💯
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O’Hara is the newest in a wave of USWNT legends to announce the tip of her soccer profession, with U.S. icons like , and bidding farewell to each the NWSL and the nationwide crew up to now 12 months.