Midfielders Shannon Boxx and Lauren Holiday will retire from the U.S. national team after a victory tour to celebrate the Women’s World Cup title, U.S. Soccer officials formally announced Monday.
Boxx, 38, and Holiday, 27, had previously indicated their intention to step down from the national team. Boxx, who has 27 goals in 191 matches for the U.S. team, also is leaving the Chicago Red Stars of the National Women’s Soccer League.
Boxx has battled Lupus and Sjogren’s syndrome, an immune disorder, for the past several years.
Holiday, 27, has 24 goals in 130 appearances with the national team.