{"id":22256,"date":"2015-12-08T10:04:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T16:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=22256"},"modified":"2015-12-08T10:04:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T16:04:52","slug":"abby-wambach-inspires-young-girls-before-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/abby-wambach-inspires-young-girls-before-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Abby Wambach inspires young girls before retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Haydee Clotter<\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">Abby Wambach, 35, is America\u2019s most famous female soccer player.<\/p>\n<p> She is a two-time Olympic gold medalist and competed in four World Cups. After a 14-year career with the women\u2019s national team, she\u2019s ready to retire.<\/p>\n<p>Wambach will play her final game Dec. 16 against China PR in New Orleans as part of the 10-game Victory Tour by the U.S. team for winning the 2015 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"ABBY3\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/147894836?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>She appeared in St. Charles recently in the Playing for Kicks event, rewarding youth soccer players for their fundraising efforts. The top performers were able to play with Wambach, have lunch and participate in a Q&amp;A with the superstar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy dream and my hope and the legacy that I hope I\u2019m leaving is that I found the game and I made it a little better,\u201d Wambach said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: Abby Wambach explaining soccer techniques at the Playing for Kicks event. (Haydee Clotter\/Medill)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Haydee Clotter Abby Wambach, 35, is America\u2019s most famous female soccer player. She is a two-time Olympic gold medalist and competed in four World Cups. After a 14-year career with the women\u2019s national team, she\u2019s ready to retire. Wambach will play her final game Dec. 16 against China PR in New Orleans as part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":22348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[509,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fall-2015","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Abby Wambach inspires young girls before retirement - Medill Reports Chicago<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/abby-wambach-inspires-young-girls-before-retirement\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Abby Wambach inspires young girls before retirement - Medill Reports Chicago\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Haydee Clotter Abby Wambach, 35, is America\u2019s most famous female soccer player. 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