{"id":13570,"date":"2026-04-22T02:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=13570"},"modified":"2026-04-22T02:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:31:07","slug":"seattle-reign-announce-fishlock-to-retire-at-end-of-current-nwsl-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=13570","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Reign announce Fishlock to retire at end of current NWSL season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is where I&#8217;ve grown, where I&#8217;ve fought, where I&#8217;ve experienced some of the best moments of my career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ll never take for granted the people, the fans and the city that have supported me through it all, and I&#8217;m going to give everything I have in this final season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fishlock has been with Reign since their inaugural season in 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She is the only player who was part of their original squad who remains at Reign, where she has so far made 219 NWSL appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fishlock has helped Reign to three NWSL Shields and three NWSL Championship appearances, while she was the league&#8217;s MVP in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reign general manager Lesle Gallimore hailed Fishlock as &#8220;not only one of the best players in NWSL history, but one of the most influential figures our game has seen&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reign head coach Laura Harvey added: &#8220;She has carried this club on her shoulders at times and has always done it with pride. Her impact on this team, this city and the sport as a whole is immeasurable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fishlock, Wales&#8217; greatest female footballer, began her club career at Cardiff City and had spells at AZ, Bristol Academy and Melbourne Victory before joining Reign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While with the American club, she has had loan spells at Glasgow City, Frankfurt, Lyon, Melbourne City and Reading.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">is the record appearance maker and goalscorer for her country, having netted 48 times across 166 international appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In March, she joined Wales&#8217; coaching staff as a technical assistant for the Women&#8217;s World Cup qualifier against Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As it stands, she does not have a permanent role with Wales, with the focus on the remainder of her playing career.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This is where I&#8217;ve grown, where I&#8217;ve fought, where I&#8217;ve experienced some of the best moments of my career. &#8220;I&#8217;ll never take for granted the people, the fans and the city that have supported me through it all, and I&#8217;m going to give everything I have in this final season.&#8221; Fishlock has been with Reign<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}