Christen Press, a two time-World Cup champion, will retire from pro soccer at the end of the 2025 NWSL season, ending a 14-year playing career that began in WPS.
• Press won the MAC Hermann Trophy in 2010 at Stanford and was named the 2011 WPS Rookie of the Year in 2011 for magicJack. When WPS folded, there was no U.S. women’s pro league, so Press headed to Sweden, playing for Göteborg FC and Tyresö FF in the Damallsvenskan. In 2014, Tyresö reached the UEFA Champions League final, losing 4-3 to Wolfsburg.
• The USWNT was then dominated by players under contract with U.S. Soccer, but Press (an alternate on the 2012 USWNT Olympic gold-medal team) finally broke into the team in 2013, scoring the first two goals and assisting on the third goal in her first match, a 4-0 win over Scotland. She played on the 2015 and 2019 World Cup championship teams. Her last appearances with the USWNT were at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 when it took a bronze-medal.
• At the club level, Press also played for the Chicago Red Stars, Utah Royals and finally Angel City FC in the NWSL with a stop back at Göteborg FC in 2018 and Manchester United in 2020-21.
• Watch (2019 World Cup semifinals): Christen Press (starting for Megan Rapinoe) puts USA against England ahead in 10th minute
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