Megan Rapinoe plans to retire on the finish of the season

Soccer star Megan Rapinoe introduced on Saturday she shall be retiring on the finish of this upcoming season.

Rapinoe, 38, will play her fourth World Cup Match with the Nationwide Girls's Soccer League this summer time.

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"It's with a deep sense of peace and gratitude that I've determined this shall be my last season enjoying this lovely recreation," Rapinoe writes in a captioned picture of herself as a younger woman in an Instagram submit to her over 2.1 million followers. "I by no means may have imagined the methods wherein soccer would form and alter my life endlessly, however by the look on this little woman’s face, I believe she knew all alongside."

OL Reign FC, based mostly in Seattle, Washington, has retained Rapinoe because the group's ahead since 2013. Rapinoe has received two World Cups along with an Olympic gold medal.

The ahead was caught kneeling whereas carrying the USWNT uniform throughout an exhibition match in opposition to Thailand. US Soccer launched an announcement within the aftermath disapproving of the act. Rapinoe was nonetheless was one of many 23 girls named to the USWNT roster. This World Cup will even characteristic Alex Morgan and Kelley O’Hara, coming because the duo's fourth time on the nationwide group.

Rapinoe's group is presently 7-3-5 for the 2023 season, with its soon-to-be-retiring ahead having scored one objective up to now.

This yr's world cup shall be hosted in Australia and New Zealand later this summer time, with the primary match for the group coming July 21 in opposition to Vietnam.