SAN DIEGO — NJ/NY Gotham FC are 2023 NWSL Champions after a 2-1 victory against OL Reign in a game that provided end-to-end action, an unimaginable injury and high drama with VAR. The championship battle ended up as the perfect ending for former U.S. women’s national team player and two-time World Cup winner Ali Krieger, who retires at the summit of the league.
“This is like an incredible moment for us. I’m so proud of the team. We worked so hard, we bought into the plan, we said this from day one and no one’s gonna believe us. But in the preseason, we were like, ‘We have to go worse to first,’ and we were kind of like laughing at first because we’re like, ‘Oh my god, we’re really going to do it’,'” Krieger told media after the game.
She recalled the team having a moment midway through the season where the team started to believe that they could complete the narrative when they beat the Seattle side in the spring in a 4-1 victory.
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