Megan Rapinoe will play one last game for the United States women’s national team against South Africa on Sunday at Soldier Field in Chicago.
She still has at least a few weeks left in her professional career with OL Reign (we’ll get to that soon), so for now, we want to spotlight some of the biggest moments of her U.S. career, which is the reason she is so well known globally. This is a brief ode to one of the greats.
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2011 World Cup quarterfinal: The cross heard ‘round the world
The explosion in popularity of the USWNT over the past decade might never have happened without the 2011 World Cup. That tournament was the catalyst, and Rapinoe was a…