Desiree Scott on retiring after six months of heartbreak: ‘You kind of know it’s coming’
New York TimesDesiree Scott has had a hard couple of years. And so Scott has decided that it’s time; at 37, she will retire from professional soccer after 14 years, 187 caps for Canada, an Olympic gold medal and two national championships with FC Kansas City. “Through these past six months of life with my mom passing, not making rosters for national teams for the first time, it has been like getting slapped in the face and a lot of heartbreak,” Scott said. “But I think we have such a fantastic younger group that through Tokyo has already been stepping up and are into that role already.” Scott saw the gap again as she fought her way back into national team camp, returning in March for the SheBelieves Cup, although she did not get playing time during the tournament. And normally I get texts, like, ‘What we doing?’ and I remember sitting in my room like, ‘This is weird’, because all of my closest friends were kind of gone.” Scott at least got to be with her team one last time at the Olympics in France, although what should have been a joyous experience turned into weeks of stress due to the revelation that members of the coaching staff had been using drones to spy on their opponents.
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