Tobin Heath, two-time Women’s World Cup winner with U.S. women’s national team, announces retirement

Tobin HeathA member of the 2015 and 2019 World Cup-winning squads of the American ladies of 2015 and 2019 officially announced her retirement and marked the end of a decorated career.

Heath played the last game of her career in August 2022 with the Seattle Reignthat the North Carolina courage 4-1 that day, while her last performance for the national team was in a friendly victory against South Korea in October 2021. The 37-year-old spent the last years of her career with a serious left knee injury that she couldn’t get back from.

“About the new year I actually came to the complete acceptance that I would not play, which looked like a two years, some say may have been accepting for three years,” Heath said on Thursday’s episode of the Re-Cap ShowA podcast that she and her former USWNT teammate and partner Wander. “I tried everything to come back, I spent tens of thousands of dollars and [had] Two operations, a crazy operation. And all the time I believed that I would come back. Writing was absolutely on the wall, I just couldn’t accept that I think that’s my end. “

Heath was one of the most impactful players of her generation, in which he recorded 181 performances for the USWNT, won the World Cup and Olympic Gold twice, as well as the US Soccer Female Athlete of the Year Award in 2016. Heath is one of the four USSWNTNNTT Japan After a penalty shootout. She also collected awards at club level and won two NWSL championships with the Portland thorns And two NWSL shields, one with the thorns and the other with the reign. Her club career also included Stints with Manchester United” Arsenal And Paris Saint-Germain.

More specifically, however, Heath was easy to reach the most technically gifted players on the USSWNT. She was a must-watch star at her best, notch of goals and helps, while mixing in height-reel worthy moments on the normal. The list contains 36 goals and 42 assists for the national team, including a World Cup Final in Vancouver in the 2015, where the USWNT Japan defeated 5-2.

Heath has taken on a handful of roles from the field in recent years. In addition to her podcast with press, she is the only woman of the FIFAs Technical Study Group for the Men’s Club World Cup, which will be closed on Sunday.