NWSL Championship 2015 winner: Amy Rodriguez Enabled FC Kansas City To Win The Title vs Seattle Reign. Hence, Kansas did it the second time in a row and became the first team to grab the National Women’s Soccer League trophy.
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With this awesome win, the midfielder Lauren Holiday will retire after getting the second title this year. Earlier this year, she and her US teammates won the first Women’s World Cup after 16 years of long wait.
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Kansas City won by 1-0, the goal which they scored in the 78th minute of the game. Amy Rodriguez, the US Women’s National teammates and a close friend of Holiday, scored the maiden goal. She made the perfect f inish by getting the perfect service by O’Reilly.
NWSL Championship 2015 Winner
Rodriguez referred Holiday as one of the best midfielder the US team ever had and a selfless person. Last year, she was the only person who scored the final two goals and that time, she got service by Holiday.
Kansas City has become the only team to play in all the three NWSL playoffs. check: Rugby World Cup 2015 schedule.
Portland enabled the NWSL final match to be played on a proper ground. It attracted over 13,264 audiences to a newly created stadium in downtown. However, the official wanted to have this match at Providence Park, home of the Portland Thorns as it has the best record of holding audiences for the games. Its average is about 15,639 fans in 10 matches.
NWSL Championship 2015 WinnerSeattle once had chances to score something and make the final little bit more competitive, but they failed in the second half after controlling the first half. Kansas’s goalkeeper Nicole Barnhart saved goals perfectly. However, she hasn’t got any chances as solo and not even featured in FIFA World Cup tournament or in Olympic. She proved to be a sort of silent warrior in this game.
In the 63rd minute, it looked like that Seattle’s Megan Rapinoe will score a goal but the opposite team’s midfielder stopped her from scoring any goal.