San Diego Wave FC are getting ready for the start of their second season, but they will be doing it now with one fewer player, as goalkeeper Carly Telford announced her retirement on Wednesday.
Telford, 35, wrote a lengthy letter and posted it to her social media channels announcing the end of her playing career: “After 20 years of playing this beautiful game, it’s time for me to hang up the old boots and gloves...I feel so lucky and blessed to have been able to do this for so many years.”
Telford spent her career in her native England, with short stops in Australia and the U.