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“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” That was Kelley O’Hara’s message to her fans in a retirement video announcement with Just Women’s Sports. All good things must come to an end, including the two-time National Women’s Soccer League champion, Olympic gold medalist, and two-time FIFA Women’s World Cup champion’s career.
As the decorated defender wraps up her professional career, she is grateful for the journey, and specifically, she is grateful to go out on her own terms with NJ/NY Gotham FC.
“It feels like everything that happened in my career was meant to be,” O’Hara exclusively told The Equalizer. “It’s really crazy that I’m going to end my career in New York/New Jersey with this club that I started my NWSL days with, and to see it in such a different place, too.”
O’Hara had never expected to find herself back with Sky Blue FC, now Gotham, her first NWSL team. For the NWSL “OG,” it just feels right that she would wrap up her…
