she told LA Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cThe thing that I\u2019m good at is scoring goals, it\u2019s an art and I love it. I\u2019m now kind of showing Alyssa how I trained to become a goal scorer; how you can think about goal-scoring in a very nuanced and methodical way.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m learning as I teach her, I\u2019m seeing the ways that she approaches it different. It\u2019s just kind of a spirit of collaboration that I see as a win-win for everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n
In their first season as teammates, Thompson put up career-best numbers with 12 goal contributions in the NWSL \u2013 proof that this partnership worked.<\/p>\n
It makes the recent announcement bittersweet for the youngster, who admits she grew as both a person and player with Press alongside her.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just love her so much as a teammate and as a friend,\u201d the forward said, following her Champions League outing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like she helped me so much with my confidence. Being the player I am today, even just coming here and talking to her about it, she has been such a big part of my journey.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really happy for her. This is a decision she made herself, but also I\u2019m very said to see her go.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Press prepares to bid farewell to football, Thompson is beginning to step into her own story \u2013 one shaped by belief and the lessons of a legend.<\/p>\n
Her first goal in a blue shirt may have been orchestrated by Alyssa, but it was a moment that, in some ways, belongs to both of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christen Press passes on her artwork For the soon-to-be retired Press, the desire to mentor Alyssa stemmed from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-220633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}