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Rose Lavelle has scored in a Women’s World Cup final for the winning team.<\/p>\n
Rose Lavelle provided her heroics in the 80th minute for Gotham FC. (Photo courtesy of Gotham FC)<\/p>\n
Rose Lavelle has scored in a Women\u2019s World Cup final for the winning team. <\/p>\n
Now, the U.S. women\u2019s national team veteran has accomplished the same in the National Women\u2019s Soccer League.<\/p>\n
Lavelle scored in the 80th minute to boost Gotham FC to a 1-0 victory over the Washington Spirit to capture the NWSL championship at PayPal Park in San Jose, Calif. on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Gotham FC completed a Cinderella run in the playoffs. As the eighth and final seeded team, the squad surprised the top-seeded Kansas City Current in the quarterfinals before upending defending championship Orlando Pride last week.<\/p>\n
It also was Gotham\u2019s second NWSL title in three seasons, having won the crown in 2023.<\/p>\n
Lavelle, who scored for the Seattle Reign in a losing effort to the eventual champion Gotham FC in 2023, also tallied for the USWNT in its 2-0 win over the Netherlands in the 2019 Women\u2019s World Cup final in Lyon, France.<\/p>\n
The match did not have many, if any shots, or close scoring encounters.<\/p>\n
In fact, as the game went on, it appeared that it could enter extra time before Lavelle produced her heroics.<\/p>\n
Second-half substitute Bruninha slipped a pass from the left flank to Lavelle, who smashed a left-footed shot past goalkeeper Aubrey Kingsbury into the net for what proved to be the winning goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Overview: Rose Lavelle has scored in a Women’s World Cup final for the winning team. Rose Lavelle provided…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[39362,35908,16128,8858,39363,88,90,89],"class_list":["post-66002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-bruninha","tag-gotham-fc","tag-national-womens-soccer-league","tag-nwsl","tag-rose-lavelle","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}