"Christen Press welcomed herself to the U.S. women's soccer team by scoring twice in her debut in the first game of 2013. The team said goodbye Saturday at Dignity Health Sports Park, honoring Press before its first game of 2026, a 6-0 win over Paraguay. In between, Press played 154 more times for the U.S., winning two World Cups, an Olympic bronze medal and scoring 62 more goals, retiring as the ninth-leading scorer in team history."
""Well, it's sort of the point, right?" she said ahead of Saturday's farewell ceremony before a crowd of 19,397. "I feel really lucky that I had the opportunity to play long enough to overlap with some of these young players and be able to see the growth of the game, how far it's come, and be able to see what the next generation of player feels like. "It's different, and it's going to take different things for people to have success.""
Christen Press formally concluded her international soccer career at Dignity Health Sports Park, honored before the U.S. team's 2026 opener, a 6-0 win over Paraguay. She scored twice in her U.S. debut in 2013 and then played 154 more times for the national team, winning two World Cups and an Olympic bronze medal while scoring 62 more goals and retiring as the ninth-leading scorer in team history. An ACL injury with Angel City sidelined her and she announced her retirement last October. Press now runs the Re-Inc fashion brand and co-hosts the Re-Cap Show podcast with wife Tobin Heath to shape the future of women's sports.
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