The brick wall who saved the United States’ 2019 World Cup dreams after a late-game penalty from England and who clinched the team’s Olympic gold medal this year with a stoppage-time save against Brazil is hanging up her gloves.After one last international game against the Netherlands today, U.S. Women’s National Team goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher is retiring. She will tie her cleats for the last time with the USWNT at 2:45 p.m. EST in a friendly at ADO Den Haag Stadium in the Netherlands.Naeher is leaving the international game after 11 years of service to the USWNT. She is the only women’s goalkeeper in soccer history to earn a shutout in both a World Cup and Olympic final.“It just feels like the right time,” Naeher said in an interview last week with Sam Mewis, host of “The Women’s Game.”The 36-year-old has earned 114 caps and 88 wins — landing her in …
US soccer star Alyssa Naeher’s final game to cap historic career as team’s ‘brick wall’ [Video]
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