{"id":80197,"date":"2025-11-16T21:29:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T01:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/jaedyn-shaw-propels-gotham-fc-to-nwsl-final-with-stunning-goal\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T21:29:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T01:29:33","slug":"jaedyn-shaw-propels-gotham-fc-to-nwsl-final-with-stunning-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/jaedyn-shaw-propels-gotham-fc-to-nwsl-final-with-stunning-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaedyn Shaw Propels Gotham FC to NWSL Final with Stunning Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jaedyn Shaw Gives Gotham FC Victory Over Orlando Pride<\/h2>\n\nIn an exciting semi-final match played at Inter&Co Stadium, Jaedyn Shaw, a key player for Gotham FC, scored a crucial goal in stoppage time, securing a 1-0 victory over Orlando Pride, the current NWSL champion.\n\nGotham, the team with the lowest seed in this year’s playoffs, will face the Washington Spirit on Saturday in the NWSL final at PayPal Park in San Jose, California.\n\n\n
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\u201cI knew I had prepared for that moment, I have worked tirelessly on my free throws. I live for these moments\u201d, Shaw declared.<\/p>\n\nJaedyn Shaw<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nShaw, who shone in Gotham’s victory over the Kansas City Current in the quarterfinals, arrived in Gotham in September after a transfer of $1.25 million from the North Carolina Courage.\n\nHis free kick goal dashed the Orlando Pride’s hopes of retaining the title.\n\nMarta, Pride forward, expressed her disagreement with the referee’s decision to award the free kick.\n\n\n

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\u201cIt wasn’t a foul. We should lose the match anyway, but not this way,\u201d commented Marta.<\/p>\n\nMarta<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nMarta, who will turn 40 before the start of the next NWSL season, has not revealed her future plans. After the defeat, the six-time winner of the world’s best player award, stated that she will visit her family in Brazil.\n\nMarta still feels the passion for competing.\n\n\n

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\u201cI’m not here to waste time. I’m still hungry. I don’t play for what I did in the past. I still feel like I can do something for this team, for my teammates, for the staff. I care a lot. I don’t know how much longer I’ll be like this, but I still care a lot, and I hope we come back next year with the same mentality, a strong mentality, the same belief, the same attitude, because this team deserves much more,\u201d added Marta.<\/p>\n\nMarta<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nIn the best Pride occasion, Marta enabled Julie Doyle, whose cross was deflected by Emily Sonnett, preventing Jacquie Ovalle from scoring into an empty net.\n\nAfter Shaw’s goal, Pride had a free kick in the 100th minute, taken by Marta. The shot was saved by Gotham goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger.\n\nIf Gotham achieves a second championship in three years, Shaw’s arrival will be a key factor.\n\nGotham coach Juan Carlos Amoros sees similarities between the current team and the one that won the title in 2023.\n\n\n

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\u201cHonestly, it’s very similar in that sense. Obviously, a lot of different people, but I think \u2013 and this is what we’ve been talking about internally for a long time \u2013 we have everything to win, and that depends on them. Because the key is that you can have individual talent \u2013 in this league everyone has it \u2013 but the differentiating factor is when individual talent really cares about winning not only for themselves, but for the person next to them\u201d, declared Amoros.<\/p>\n\nJuan Carlos Amoros<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jaedyn Shaw Gives Gotham FC Victory Over Orlando Pride In an exciting semi-final match played at Inter&Co Stadium, Jaedyn Shaw, a key player for Gotham FC, scored a crucial goal in stoppage time, securing a 1-0 victory over Orlando Pride, the current NWSL champion. Gotham, the team with the lowest seed in this year’s playoffs, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2272,8469,798,2421],"class_list":{"0":"post-80197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-gotham-fc","9":"tag-jaedyn-shaw","10":"tag-nwsl","11":"tag-orlando-pride"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}