{"id":85103,"date":"2025-11-23T05:13:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T09:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/rodman-dejected-after-losing-the-nwsl-final-it-wasnt-me\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T05:13:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T09:13:52","slug":"rodman-dejected-after-losing-the-nwsl-final-it-wasnt-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/rodman-dejected-after-losing-the-nwsl-final-it-wasnt-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodman, dejected after losing the NWSL final: “It wasn’t me”"},"content":{"rendered":"Washington Spirit forward Trinity Rodman admitted to having performed below her expectations in the NWSL Championship final, where her team fell to Gotham FC by 1-0.\n\nRose Lavelle’s goal in the 80th minute made the difference in the match.\n\nRodman, who had been recovering from a right knee sprain for the last month, started the match on the bench and came on as a substitute in the 57th minute. His participation was limited and he failed to take any shots during the 33 minutes he played.\n\n

I felt like I wasn’t myself tonight, which is terrible. I feel like this is the second year I’ve reached a final without feeling like myself. So it saddens me. But yes, for my part, I just tried to go out and do what I could. I definitely didn’t perform as I hoped.<\/p>Trinity Rodman<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nRodman also mentioned that his knee “felt great”, but acknowledged that it wasn’t one hundred percent.\n\nThis is the second consecutive time Rodman has reached the final dealing with an injury. Last year, she had back problems when the Spirit lost to the Orlando Pride, also by 1-0.\n\nGotham wins the NWSL championship after a series of magical moments.\n\nThe defeat in the final weighed heavily on the Spirit. Rodman couldn’t hold back the tears after the match.\n\nRodman reflected on his limited playing time and physical condition, admitting that he didn’t feel in his best shape.\n\n\n

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Trinity Rodman tras sufrir un golpe en la final de la NWSL.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nAfter the final whistle, Rodman met with her boyfriend, American tennis star Ben Shelton, and they embraced in a long hug.\n\n

It was sad, and you feel like you have your team throughout the year, but sometimes you just need external support, and Ben is that for me. So I was crying. I’m sad. It’s horrible and it’s not just that we lost a soccer game. It’s all the work we put in and it’s nice to get that reward at the end, but at the end of the day we can still celebrate because we did a lot.<\/p>Trinity Rodman<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nNow, the question is whether this was Rodman’s last game with the Spirit, or even in the NWSL. It has been reported that she has lucrative offers from England and the USL Super League.\n\nThe match, as is often the case in finals, was intense from the start, with solid defenses and few scoring opportunities. The decisive moment came with Lavelle’s goal, although Bruninha was fundamental in the assist.\n\nHal Hershfelt, midfielder for Washington, suffered a leg injury and received treatment before returning to the field. Spirit coach Adrian Gonz\u00e1lez admitted that, in retrospect, he should have substituted Hershfelt.\n\n

Obviously, we were receiving information that [Hershfelt] wanted to continue and was trying to, so the message was that she was about to start. Obviously it took longer than we expected, but a player like her always wants to play, and I imagine that in a final you always want to play, and you don’t want to be substituted.<\/p>Adrian Gonz\u00e1lez<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nGoalkeeper Aubrey Kingsbury, who was also on the Spirit team that lost the 2024 final, expressed her disappointment at losing the final for the second year in a row.\n\n

I think it’s a big impact because this group completely believed we were going to win. There really wasn’t any scenario where we weren’t going to lift that trophy today. So yeah, it definitely hurts. I think it was a great final, it came down to a moment of brilliance from Rose Lavelle, and yes, I’m very proud of the season we’ve had and the way we played. But we fell a little short on the day.<\/p>Aubrey Kingsbury<\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Washington Spirit forward Trinity Rodman admitted to having performed below her expectations in the NWSL Championship final, where her team fell to Gotham FC by 1-0. Rose Lavelle’s goal in the 80th minute made the difference in the match. Rodman, who had been recovering from a right knee sprain for the last month, started the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2272,290,4042,2643],"class_list":{"0":"post-85103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-gotham-fc","9":"tag-injury","10":"tag-nwsl-championship","11":"tag-trinity-rodman"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85103","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=85103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}