Gotham FC’s stars and workers took the stage at Metropolis Corridor on Monday morning with a triumphant form of stump speech: We’re not carried out but.
Simply 36 hours after successful the 2025 NWSL championship, Gotham was feted in entrance of their loyal followers with a bus experience up Broadway and a confetti-strewn ceremony by which they have been introduced keys to New York Metropolis by mayor Eric Adams.
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Gotham snagged their second title in three years — tearing by way of the playoffs because the lowest seed, very similar to they did in 2023 — with a in Saturday night time’s closing within the Bay Space on Rose Lavelle’s thundering late objective.
“Thanks guys a lot for believing in us, for supporting us all season lengthy,” Lavelle stated when the “M-V-P” chants from the a number of hundred followers had died down. “Hopefully, this isn’t the final time we’ll be doing this. Hopefully, there’s many extra.”
Gotham FC was honored for its NWSL championship Nov. 24. Paul Martinka for the NY Put up
The objective of constant so as to add {hardware} was echoed by the crew’s brass.
Gotham head coach Juan Carlos Amorós proudly recounted how his gamers had constructed togetherness throughout a busy slate that included successful the inaugural CONCACAF W Champions Cup in Might — which earned them a spot within the FIFA Ladies’s Champions Cup alongside different continental membership event winners in early 2026.
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“That’s what has pushed us, not solely to be the champions of the nation, to be the champions of the continent, and we’re by no means completed,” Amorós stated. “Our subsequent stage is we wish to be the champions of the world in January.”
Earlier than prize midseason acquisition Jaedyn Shaw gamely reprised her “underdogs, my ass” line that grew to become a postseason rallying cry, common supervisor Yael Averbuch West talked up Gotham’s “relentless ambition.”
“Moments like this are the gasoline to proceed to push, with you backing us,” Averbuch West stated.
Expressions of gratitude for that backing from the fan base was one other of the morning’s major themes.
Gotham FC obtained a key to the town from Eric Adams on Nov. 24. Paul Martinka for the NY Put up
They got here, younger and previous, in gentle blue sweatshirts and hats and scarves.
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They got here in throwback Carli Lloyd No. 10s, an Emily Sonnett UVA shirt and the compulsory “Everybody watches ladies’s sports activities” tees.
They got here with pictures of Fireball (Lavelle’s most well-liked cheers) and handmade drawings of Lavelle’s pet canine.
Gotham FC was honored for its NWSL title with a ceremony Nov. 24. Paul Martinka for the NY Put up
Beatrix Stepanian, 9, skipped college (she acquired a be aware!) to be within the entrance row behind the barricades as Gotham paraded previous.
“There’s so many individuals supporting their crew proper now,” Stepanian stated, “and it’s simply a lot enjoyable to be right here.”
And nobody appears to be getting uninterested in these trophy celebrations.
“From Day 1, our dream wasn’t simply to win,” proprietor Carolyn Tisch Blodgett stated. “It was to construct one thing iconic. One thing that displays the vitality of New York, the guts of New Jersey and the ability of ladies’s sports activities. One thing that claims: We’re right here, we’re dedicated and we’re not carried out. And we’re not, not even shut.”