Image by thebiglead.com By Hailey Welch
Staff Writer Abby Wambach, one of the world's greatest soccer players ended her career in 2015. Wambach started out as the youngest player on the women’s national team. Now she is one of the oldest on the team, but Wambach's career finally ended when she retired. Wambach has earned 2 gold medals from the olympics, is a FIFA women's world cup champion, 6 time US women's female athlete of the year, and 2012 FIFA women's player of the year. “I think that in order to get better as an athlete and to see whatever kind of results you're after, you have to make goals. Whether you write them down or tell someone about them, it's important to set goals for yourself in order to achieve any kind of success,” says Wambach. Wambach has broken Mia Hamm's longstanding record (158) for most international goals by any soccer player. She did so by dropping a hat trick. She retires still holding the record at a whopping 184. Wambach has 184 international goals, and 14 women's world cup goals. In 2004 Wambach's header in the 112th minute of the gold-medal game against Brazil help lift the squad to a 2-1 victory and the top spot on the podium. Wambach starts and wears captain's armband for her 255th and final cap for the USWNT. “I’m the luckiest person, I feel like, on the planet, and it's not because of any individual award or even playing on the grandest stage. Its because I’ve been able to share it. My philosophy in life is that happiness is meant to be shared. We all have dreams and, if you’re out there and you have a dream and you want something-you want something so bad-you’ve got to risk everything. You’ve got to risk being completely devastated if you don’t achieve it, and when you fall down you’ve got to get back up. And so that's what this means, that's what this is, that’s who we are. This team does not lay down for very long.We have an opportunity to take the world by storm. We have the opportunity bring back the World Cup back to the United States.I know we can do it,” says Wambach. Comments are closed.
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