Christie Rampone quietly ended her national team career, starting with a polite withdrawal from a USWNT camp last summer. Rampone said she didn’t feel one hundred percent at the time, making a decision not just for herself, but for the team. It was peak Rampone: courteous, realistic, and for the greater good regardless of her own benefit or ego. Then in early February of this year, US Soccer president Sunil Gulati officially confirmed the retirement while announcing that the federation would honor Rampone during the SheBelieves Cup.
The ceremony took place before the kickoff of United States vs.