The following year she made a record as she scored 159 goals to eclipse Hamm’s record of international career goals. Wambach scored five times at the London Olympics in 2012 where the US won gold. She has since then scored more than 100 goals for the United States including 13 World Cup goals as the US lost to Japan in 2011. She was edging closer to the 100 goals international goal mark in 2008 when she went to the Beijing Olympics but fractured her leg just before the start of the Games. She scored six goals at the 2007 World Cup, helping the United States finish in third place. In the preceding years, she continued being prolific and by 2006 she had fifty international goals for the United States. In the same year, she represented the United States in the Athens Olympic Games, where she won the gold medal. In that year, she was named the Female Athlete of the Year, which she won for several years.Ībby has made history as one of only four players that ever had double scoring figures when she scored thirty goals in 30 matches. She won the WUSA title in 2003 and played five matches in the Women’s World Cup. Wambach made her debut with the American team in 2001 and by the following year, she was the second overall pick for the WUSA draft. She would then go to the University of Florida, where she won several gongs including the conference Player of the Year that she won two times. She got interested in sports as a child and often played football with the boys. Still it was not all smooth sailing for Wambach as she had worked hard to get there. In 2012, FIFA named Wambach the Women Player of the Year. Playing for the United States, she helped her team win the 2015 World Cup and the 20 Olympic gold medals.
Abby Wambach is an American soccer player that has made her name as one of the sport’s greatest forwards to ever play the game.
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