# Megan Rapinoe is retiring from football **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** football-soccer-fifa\ **Created:** [November 14, 2023, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/megan-rapinoe-is-retiring-from-football/993119 "2023-11-14T12:14:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2023, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/megan-rapinoe-is-retiring-from-football/993119/1 "2023-11-14T12:14:16Z")
It’s always best to go out on top while you’re young enough to enjoy it. > **[Megan Rapinoe limps off pitch early in her final soccer game before retirement](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/megan-rapinoe-will-play-final-soccer-game-tonight-rcna123547)** > > The American soccer icon and two-time World Cup winner announced over the summer that she’d hang up her cleats after this NWSL season comes to a close. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2023, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/megan-rapinoe-is-retiring-from-football/993119/2 "2023-11-14T12:33:07Z")
I think it’s best to go out when YOU want to go out. We always have an opinion as to how people should live their lives, but they are presumptuous and shouldn’t matter. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2023, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/megan-rapinoe-is-retiring-from-football/993119/3 "2023-11-14T12:39:35Z")
If I were an athlete, I’d want to go out before the injuries piled up too much. That’s all I meant. 🤷 ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/megan-rapinoe-is-retiring-from-football/993119/4 "2023-11-15T01:44:39Z")
Debilitating injuries aren’t as much a concern in soccer compared to American football or boxing. My best Rapinoe memory was the game tying assist to Abby Wambach in the 2011 WC against Brazil. That and the 2012 Olympics were probably her at her best (her ballon d’Or win, IMO was unwarranted). Probably the ~4th or 5th most consequential American woman’s player of the 2000s? Heck of a career. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/megan-rapinoe-is-retiring-from-football/993119/5 "2023-11-15T01:59:11Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > Debilitating injuries aren’t as much a concern in soccer compared to American football Yeah, her big mistake was trying to play right tackle for the Rams. Her retirement from American football was predictable. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/megan-rapinoe-is-retiring-from-football/993119/6 "2024-01-01T10:11:49Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > My best Rapinoe memory was the game tying assist to Abby Wambach in the 2011 WC against Brazil. Most exciting moment of live (well, broadcast live, I wasn’t there in person) sports of my entire life.