Gisele Thompson scores first pro goal, makes NWSL history with sister Alyssa

The National Women’s Soccer League is formally including two names to its document books.

Angel City‘s Gisele Thompson, assisted by her older sister Alyssa, scored her first skilled purpose on Friday night time at Audi Area in Washington, D.C. Alyssa despatched a cross in from the left facet to Gisele, who discovered the again of the online. With the purpose, the pair grew to become the primary sisters to mix for a purpose in NWSL historical past.

The purpose got here within the twenty second minute and gave Angel Metropolis a 2-0 lead in what was an eventual 4-3 win over the Washington Spirit. Gisele additionally accounted for an help within the 72nd minute for Katie Zelem, who gave ACFC a 3-2 lead earlier than Riley Tiernan’s game-winner within the 98th minute.

“I am so comfortable we bought the win and the sister-to-sister purpose,” Gisele said after the game. “We have all the time dreamed about this, particularly on this excessive [level] of soccer.

“Doing it collectively is superb, and getting my first purpose was simply so unimaginable.”

This was the second the 2 had been manifesting ever since they signed contract extensions with Angel Metropolis in January. Alyssa, 20, who was the youngest participant on the U.S. national team‘s 2023 Women’s World Cup squad, agreed to a three-year extension which is able to preserve her with the crew by means of 2028. Gisele, 19, signed a two-year deal.

Alyssa was the primary general choose within the 2023 NWSL Draft at 18 out of Harvard-Westlake Excessive Faculty in Los Angeles. A Los Angeles native, Alyssa developed her abilities enjoying for the under-17 Whole Futbol Academy boys’ crew in MLS Subsequent and scored in her Angel Metropolis debut.

Gisele adopted her sister to Angel Metropolis final 12 months. She additionally developed with the Whole Futbol Academy earlier than signing a professional contract simply three days earlier than her seventeenth birthday. The sisters had been the primary highschool athletes to earn identify, picture and likeness offers with Nike.

After enjoying within the World Cup, Alyssa was left off the smaller U.S. roster for final 12 months’s Paris Olympics. She returned to the nationwide crew final fall, scoring her first purpose in a 3-1 victory over Iceland in Texas. She has performed in 13 video games with the nationwide crew.

Previous to Friday, the NWSL by no means had a sister-to-sister purpose. Samantha and Kristie Mewis performed within the NWSL however by no means on the identical crew. Tori and Maddie Huster each performed for the Spirit briefly in 2018 however by no means mixed for a purpose.

What’s extra, this marks the second enormous accomplishment for the Thompson sisters this 12 months. In February, the duo grew to become simply the second pair of sisters to start a U.S. women’s national team game collectively, becoming a member of the Mewis sisters, who’ve appeared in three USWNT video games alongside each other of their careers.

The Related Press contributed to this report.

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