Megan Rapinoe will play games her ultimate contest for the U.S. girls’s nationwide staff in a Sept. 24 pleasant in opposition to South Africa at Chicago’s Soldier Garden, the U.S. Football Federation introduced Tuesday.

Rapinoe is ready to be venerated earlier than the fit, which would be the 2d of a two-game order in opposition to South Africa. Rapinoe is not going to play games within the first contest, in Cincinnati on Sept. 21.

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Rapinoe, 38, introduced extreme hour forward of the 2023 Global Cup that she would renounce from football on the finish of the 2023 NWSL season.

The 11-year league veteran and U.S. standout will play games her ultimate regular-season fit at Seattle’s Lumen Garden on Oct. 6 in opposition to the Washington Spirit.

“People may think that my career coming to an end would bring sadness, but when I think back on the past 30-plus years of playing this game, my overriding emotions are joy and gratitude,” Rapinoe mentioned within the U.S. Football drop.

“It’s been an unbelievable ride. It will be special to have this one last opportunity to play for my country in front of our incredible fans and get the chance to thank my teammates and everyone who has had an impact on me as a person and player over the years.”

Rapinoe will finish her world profession with 203 caps. Right through the new Global Cup in Australia and Unused Zealand, she changed into the 14th American to achieve 200 video games performed for her nation.

She has 63 targets and 73 assists for the USWNT, score her within the lead 10 all date for the U.S. in each sections.

An outspoken suggest for equivalent pay in girls’s football and supporter of LGBTQ+ rights, President Joe Biden extreme 12 months awarded Rapinoe the Presidential Medal of Sovereignty, the society’s absolute best civilian honor.