{"id":1311589,"date":"2019-06-19T13:32:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T19:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wedding-to-follow-world-cup-for-us-teammates-krieger-harris\/"},"modified":"2019-06-19T13:32:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T19:32:00","slug":"wedding-to-follow-world-cup-for-us-teammates-krieger-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/wedding-to-follow-world-cup-for-us-teammates-krieger-harris\/","title":{"rendered":"Wedding to follow World Cup for US teammates Krieger, Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
FILE – In this June 15, 2019, file photo, U.S. teammates Ashlyn Harris, left, and Ali Krieger chat during a visit to the Parc des Princes stadium a day before a soccer match against Chile at the Women’s World Cup in Paris. Many World Cup teammates have special bonds. The tie that binds U.S. defender Krieger and goalkeeperHarris is likely the strongest at the tournament. They got engaged last year and are planning a December wedding. (AP Photo\/Alessandra Tarantino, File)<\/strong>
AP | AP<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

PARIS \u2014 Many World Cup teammates have special bonds. The tie that binds U.S. defender Ali Krieger and American goalkeeper Ashlyn Harris is among the strongest at the tournament.<\/p>\n

They got engaged last year and are planning a December wedding.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of our teammates with their partners and spouses, they don\u2019t get to be here day in and day out,\u201d Krieger said. \u201cIt\u2019s really nice to be able to share this moment with her and to make these memories with her.\u201d<\/p>\n

They announced their engagement in People magazine in March, revealing Harris proposed on the beach in Clearwater, Florida, during a picnic last Sept. 15 and surprised Krieger with a ring.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe is what makes me. She is my life. She is the person I am spending the rest of my life with,\u201d Harris said.<\/p>\n

They first met in 2010, a time both were training with the national team. They were teammates with the Washington Spirit of the National Women\u2019s Soccer League for much of 2013-15. Harris was left unprotected in an expansion draft and was taken by the Orlando Pride, and Krieger joined her when she was traded to the Pride after the 2016 season.<\/p>\n

While their lives are joined, they are not roommates when national team players double up on the road.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think what has made us so successful in the work space together for so long is our boundaries,\u201d Harris said. \u201cWhen we\u2019re at work, we\u2019re there to work. I\u2019m her teammate, so if she wants to come to me for something, I\u2019m going to give her the real answer, the accountability answer. And then when we\u2019re at home, that\u2019s our time to be at home, and then soccer doesn\u2019t walk through the front door.\u201d<\/p>\n

When they head out for the 20-minute trip to training in Florida, their personal lives stay home.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes we drive separate,\u201d Krieger said. \u201cI like to have my space sometimes and so does she.\u201d<\/p>\n

Krieger grew up in Virginia and played at Penn State before turning pro, and she made her national team debut in 2008. Now 34, Krieger started all seven matches as the U.S. won the 2015 World Cup but she was dropped from the national team in 2017 while Harris continued to get called to camp. Harris provided mental support.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen she was in town we would get up together 8 a.m., go do workouts, and she really pushed me to get back and I really am grateful and will always be for her support,\u201d Krieger said. \u201cSometimes I\u2019d feel bad because I would be so emotional and so, maybe tough at times to be around, because I was so angry at times and just really going through it and struggling. So I think with her support, she really helped get me out of that hole and blossom into the woman I am now here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Krieger received a text from U.S. coach Jill Ellis on March 19 asking her to give her a call. With decisions on a World Cup roster looming, Ellis told Krieger that night she was wanted back.<\/p>\n

She returned for an exhibition against Belgium on April 7 after an absence of two years and a day, then was together with Harris on May 2 when Ellis revealed she was going to the World Cup . Krieger made her 100th international appearance versus New Zealand on May 16, remained on the bench as Kelley O\u2019Hara played right back for last week\u2019s opening 13-0 rout of Thailand, then took over for Sunday\u2019s 3-0 victory over Chile.<\/p>\n

Harris, 33, grew up in Florida, was a three-time NCAA champion at North Carolina and turned pro in 2010. While Harris first trained with the national team in 2009, she didn\u2019t make her debut until 2013 and has just 21 total appearances, backing up Hope Solo at first and now Alyssa Naeher.<\/p>\n

Their relationship does not appear to be an issue within the national team.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone\u2019s personal lives is their personal lives, and we respect however they want to show it,\u201d defender Becky Sauerbrunn said.<\/p>\n

In an era when more athletes who are gay are comfortable publicly discussing their relationships, Australia captain Sam Kerr revealed in a Nike mini-documentary this year her partner is American midfielder Nikki Stanton , a teammate on the Perth Glory from 2015-17 and since 2018 on the NWSL\u2019s Chicago Red Stars.<\/p>\n

Krieger and Harris, though, are together not just on a club but on their sport\u2019s biggest stage during the one month every four years when intense focus is on women\u2019s soccer.<\/p>\n

And coming up soon is a wedding they put off until after club seasons end.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe celebration will be in December,\u201d Harris said, \u201cso there\u2019ll be a lot of teammates there, that\u2019s for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FILE – In this June 15, 2019, file photo, U.S. teammates Ashlyn Harris, left, and Ali Krieger chat during a visit to the Parc des Princes stadium a day before a soccer match against Chile at the Women’s World Cup in Paris. Many World Cup teammates have special bonds. The tie that binds U.S. defender […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1311589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 08:26:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}