{"id":2419,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/2419","headline":"Alyssa Naeher retires after 17 professional seasons","dek":"The USWNT and Chicago Stars goalkeeper, 38, announced the news in an Instagram post on Friday.","body":"Alyssa Naeher is done. The 38-year-old goalkeeper announced her retirement from professional soccer on Friday, closing out a 17-season career that began back when the NWSL itself was brand new.\n\nNaeher was one of the few players still around from the league's first season in 2013, and she spent 11 seasons anchoring the net in Chicago. Along the way she became a fixture for the U.S. women's national team, building a reputation as the calm, steady presence behind a roster full of attacking stars.\n\n\"It's hard to put the last 17 years into words. I've given everything I have to this game, and it's given me memories and experiences that I will never forget,\" Naeher wrote on Instagram. She added that she was grateful for the career, the friends the game brought her, and the memories she is walking away with.\n\nHer resume includes a distinction no other keeper can claim: shutouts in both an Olympic gold medal match and a World Cup final. That combination, built over nearly two decades, is what made her exit something more than just another retirement announcement.","published_at":"2026-11-14T00:49:48.447166+00:00","source_count":3,"written_from":[{"outlet":"The Athletic","publisher":"The Athletic","title":"Legendary goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher retires, taking her ever-present calm with her","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7779973/2026/11/13/alyssa-naeher-retirement-nwsl-goalkeeper/"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Alyssa Naeher, USWNT and Chicago Stars goalkeeper, announces retirement from professional soccer","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/article/alyssa-naeher-uswnt-and-chicago-stars-goalkeeper-announces-retirement-from-professional-soccer-204804110.html"},{"outlet":"CBS Sports","publisher":"CBS Sports","title":"USWNT icon Alyssa Naeher announces retirement from professional soccer after historic goalkeeping career","url":"https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/uswnt-icon-alyssa-naeher-retirement-professional-soccer-chicago/"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"The Athletic","publisher":"The Athletic","title":"Former USWNT goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher announces retirement from soccer aged 38","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7779478/2026/11/13/alyssa-naeher-retirement-chicago-stars-uswnt/"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Former USWNT goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher announces retirement from soccer aged 38","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/former-uswnt-goalkeeper-alyssa-naeher-180106493.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Former USWNT, Chicago Stars goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher calls it a career","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/former-uswnt-chicago-stars-goalkeeper-184654620.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Legendary goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher retires, taking her ever-present calm with her","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/legendary-goalkeeper-alyssa-naeher-retires-223107121.html"}],"image":{"url":"https://sportshub.cbsistatic.com/i/2026/11/13/c1246d52-723e-42ea-8062-e14195fe0190/untitled-design-2026-11-13t191858-743.png","credit":"CBS Sports","width":1920},"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}