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England midfielder Jill Scott retires from soccer

(AP) — England midfield- because I'm from Sunder-
er Jill Scott announced land, but two things have al-
her retirement from soc- ways been true about me: I've
cer on Tuesday, the sec- always been stubborn and
ond member of the Euro I've always loved football.
2022-winning team to do
so in two days. "It's been in my blood ever
since I was five years old. I
The 35-year-old Scott's deci- saw a load of boys playing in
sion comes after Ellen White, the school yard and I walked
the team's record scorer, said straight up to them and said
Monday she was retiring. the four magic words ... 'Can
Both Scott and White played I play too?'. Imagine, if you
in the final of the Women's would have told me then that
European Championship on I'd go on to play for England
July 31, when England beat for 16 years?
Germany 2-1 after extra time.
"If you would have told me
Scott made her England de- that I'd live to see 90,000
but in 2006 and had a total of people packed into Wembley
161 international appearances Stadium for a women's Eu-
— second only to Fara Wil- ropean final? And that I'd be
liams with 172 — and scored playing in it? Impossible." 2017. triumphant Euro 2022 cam- ball and a great team player.
27 goals for the national side. Other career highlights for paign, including the final @JillScottJS8 congratula-
Scott began her career with Scott include scoring Eng- against Germany. tions on a wonderful career,
She had been without a club hometown Sunderland be- land's winner against the it's been a pleasure to get to
after leaving Manchester City fore spending seven years Netherlands in the Euro 2009 Prince William congratulated know you.
at the end of last season. at Everton and then joining semifinals and also netting in Scott on her career but joked
"I may be saying my good- City in 2013. She later had City's 2017 Women's FA Cup he would not miss her "slide "Tiny bit pleased there won't
byes to football, but we're loan spells back at Everton final victory over Birming- tackles." be any more slide tackles dur-
going to make this a celebra- and Aston Villa. She won ham. She also represented ing 'friendly' kickabouts... W."
tion. No sad faces!! We've had every domestic honor dur- Great Britain at the 2012 and William, who is president William presented members
too much fun for any tears," ing her time in the game, delayed 2020 Olympics. of the Football Association, of the winning England team
Scott wrote on The Players' including the Women's Su- She made four substitute wrote in a personal tweet: with their medals after the
Tribune website. "Maybe it's per League title with City in appearances in England's "A pioneer of Women's foot- Euro 2022 final.

Yanks' Cashman backs Boone to turn `slings' into 'bouquets'

(AP) — Yankees general manager man said. "It's important for our play- and dealing Jordan Montgomery to
Brian Cashman responded to his Going into the Subway Series opener ers to see that, because if he can keep St. Louis for injured center fielder
team's funk with some flowery in the Bronx, the Yankees (75-48) had his temperament the same, for the Harrison Bader, expected back next
language and belief in manager lost 14 of their last 18 games and six most part, they don't see panic. They month.
Aaron Boone, the coaches and straight series for the first time since don't see anything. It doesn't mean he
players. 1995 . Their AL East lead stood at can't lose his cool, which he will from Montas is 0-1 with a 9.00 ERA in
eight games, down from 15 1/2 games time to time when necessary. He has three starts, and Benintendi is batting
"You get the bouquets come your way in early July. that gear and he can turn to it. You've .228 with nine RBIs in 24 games for
when things are flying high and you seen it. But I think his demeanor is the Yankees.
get the slings and arrows when things Cashman and owner Hal Stein- vitally important, in a market like
aren't going well," Cashman said, brenner were booed during Sunday's this, especially." Montgomery is 4-0 with a 0.35 ERA
hours before the Yankees beat the ceremony to retire Paul O'Neill's No. for the Cardinals. On Monday night,
Mets 4-2 Monday night. "You hear 21. Cashman held a news confer- Yankees star Aaron Judge said af- he pitched a one-hitter as the NL
it loud and clear. We know it and we ence Monday evening, endorsing the ter Saturday's loss to Toronto there Central leaders beat the Chicago
feel it. And it's our job to find a way to team's coaching staff and Boone, his needed to be "a little better energy Cubs 1-0.
to be flying high and make sure that fifth-year manager. in the dugout and push each other a
the product out there is something little bit." "We're going to reinforce what we got
that everybody's excited about." "He's even he's even keeled," Cash- and double down on it," Cashman
Judge hit his major league-leading said. "And I believe that that's the
47th home run in the win over the right track with these guys. They're
Mets, connecting off Max Scherzer. hearing it. They're feeling it, they
"When you're playing poorly, you know it. They're not afraid of it. And
usually look lethargic and not crisp," if they could turn the narrative to
Cashman said. "If he had a meter for more positive yesterday, they would
for testing commitment and caring have done it by now. But they're not
and all that, we'd be off the charts afraid to keep pushing through it un-
with that crew. But I've been through til we push through it."
this enough to know, too, that there
are there spaces in time and patch- Cashman knows the Yankees have a
es your team can hit where it looks restless fan base expecting the team to
more zombie than than than what end a title drought dating to 2009.
you're used to seeing."
"The group's got my belief," Cash-
Cashman said he would wait until af- man said. "I believe strongly in them.
ter the season to evaluate his moves I think they're they're still capable
ahead of the Aug. 2 trade deadline, of everything we ever hoped and
which including obtaining Frankie dreamed. But we have to weather this
Montas from Oakland and An- storm first and foremost."
drew Benintendi from Kansas City,