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because they were nice enough to give you my own TV show that launches next spring and now I present to you Abby Womback.

Abby Womback her last match Wednesday night Fox Sports won 830 PM USA versus China. So Abby why now? Why is this over? Why are you ending this?

I mean why not? It's been 30 years. I'm excited. I'm happy. I'm closed. You know, I got to have a sense of closure that I'm content with. You know what I mean?

And I think that as a pro athlete, you got to know when it's time to hang up your boots and for me, I probably have been feeling this for a pretty long while but without that world cup.

It's been hard. It's been hard to walk away. When you say pretty long while, like how long we talking?

I would say I would say probably about two years. It's been it's been a bit of a struggle. I've been I've been struggling with just not, you know, your body gets older. You're you're you're you slow down.

Your passions start to change in that, you know, doing the same thing over and over and over again becomes a little bit old but the reality is not having won that world cup was like the only thing that kind of like kept me coming back and and kept that fire still lit inside me and.

You know, and of course, as you get older, you're you slow down and you know, all these young kids that are just, you know, nipping out your heels and all they want to do is take your spot and scores many goals you have and have all the things that you've been able to do and and the things that you've earned throughout your life.

But the reality is, you know, they have an entire career that they need to go through to get to where I'm at, but I'm connect. I'm happy. You know, I'm finally Noreland. My family's here.

You know, it's going to be an amazing night. I'm really excited.

You said you've been playing for 30 years. When did you think you could actually do this or do you not even realize that it just kind of keeps going keeps going all of a sudden you're in college. Oh, wait, I should keep or was there a time when you were like 7, 8, 9, we were like, I can do this.

I mean, there was really like nothing to look up to, you know, like that's that's what I think is so valuable about where I've been able to go throughout my career. I just kind of have let it like evolve in an organic way.

And, you know, I think that nowadays, you know, some of those kids out there that are looking up and they see us in position, maybe do what they wanted to and be what they want to be.

I think that value is priceless. And, you know, I didn't have that growing up. I didn't have that ability to look up. You know, one of my idols was like Michael Jordan. You know, until I got into high school when the national team kind of got in a little bit more recognition.

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