When Megan Rapinoe was allocated to the Seattle Reign months before the inaugural NWSL season kicked off in 2013, she was not pleased, to say the least. She had a fondness for Portland after spending her college years there, and matters only became worse when, following the conclusion of her loan spell at Olympique Lyonnais, she joined a team that was winless after 10 games and sitting at the bottom of the league table.
And yet, she said she immediately found herself at home with the Reign.
“Immediately, when I joined the team, it just felt like exactly where I wanted to be,” Rapinoe said on Thursday ahead of her final regular season home game with the team, now called the OL Reign. “It just immediately clicked and I felt really at home on the field, I felt comfortable just within the group. … Right away I was growing and being challenged and understood what my role was and could see a real future here.”
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