{"id":157708,"date":"2025-08-19T06:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T06:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/157708\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T06:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T06:24:09","slug":"alyssa-naeher-scores-her-first-nwsl-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/157708\/","title":{"rendered":"Alyssa Naeher scores her first NWSL goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE \u2014 Chicago Stars goalkeeper <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSL\/status\/1957657202090746230\">Alyssa Naeher scored her first National Women\u2019s Soccer League goal<\/a> in the final moments of stoppage time as the Stars pulled into a 3-3 draw with the Seattle Reign on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Stars scrambled for the equalizer after scoring a pair of late goals to pull to 3-2. Naeher pushed forward to aid the attack and scored in the 99th minute in a crowd in front of the Reign\u2019s net.<\/p>\n<p>Naeher was making her 200th career start, becoming the first goalkeeper to reach the milestone in league history. She is the third goalkeeper to score a goal in the NWSL.<\/p>\n<p>A Women\u2019s World Cup winner and Olympic gold medalist, Naeher retired from the U.S. national team last year.<\/p>\n<p>Jess Fishlock scored in her third straight game when she took a cross from Jordyn Huitema and guided it into the goal. Huitema scored on a bicycle kick in the 33rd minute to make it 2-0 for the Reign (7-5-4).<\/p>\n<p>Emeri Adames scored 10 seconds into the second half. Following the kickoff, Naeher was well out in front of her goal and Adames took advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Brazilian Ludmila scored for the Stars in the 73rd minute. Just five minutes later, Camryn Biegalski added another.<\/p>\n<p>The Stars (1-9-6) had to make two first-half substitutions because of injuries to Natalia Kuikka and Shea Groom.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed the Queen\u2019s Match, the Reign honored the 1985 U.S. women\u2019s national team on the 40th anniversary of the team\u2019s first-ever international match.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: August 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM CDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE \u2014 Chicago Stars goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher scored her first National Women\u2019s Soccer League goal in the final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":157709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[91673,960,11436,5386,1818,5468,91672,53703],"class_list":{"0":"post-157708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-alyssa-naeher","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-stars","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-illinois","13":"tag-nwsl","14":"tag-seattle-reign","15":"tag-womens-soccer"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115054003149863039","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}