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I feel like there's a sense of completion and closure to having won the World Cup.

And otherwise I wouldn't have been here, you know, I wouldn't have stayed on for these last couple of years

if I didn't feel like that was the one thing that was missing.

For her to wave goodbye in a soccer stadium on a grass field on a sunny day, you know,

that would be more fitting than in a two-thirds empty dome on cement, but, you know, such as the Victory Tour, I guess. Welcome to S.I.'s Planet Football Podcast.

We discuss the latest in the world of soccer.

I am S.I.com soccer editor, obvi creditor joined today by S.I. senior writer Grantwall and

S.I.com's Brian Strauss. Guys, we are taping this ahead of a pretty

important day in US soccer. Abbey Wombach's finale as a player comes Wednesday night

in New Orleans against China at the Superdome,

8 o'clock eastern on Fox Sports One.

We teased an interview grant that you had with her last week. We were going to play the entire interview a little bit. But first I want to welcome you guys in and talk a little about Abby and our experiences with her. And then we'll get to the real good stuff so Grant let's let's start

with you granted that you talk to her just what are your thoughts as her

career comes to an end?

Well, it's the end of an era, you know, and we have been fortunate to have a couple of cool moments like this over the last decade or so I think back to 2004 around this time a year when

me a ham and Julie Fowdy and Joy Fawcett retired from the US womenS. Women's National Team having won the Olympic

Gold Medal that year and just the end of some amazing pioneering careers with that. And I thought at the time that that was a little under-covered,

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