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Gotham FC has formally introduced that defender Emily Sonnett has sustained a “ruptured patellar tendon” in her left knee and will probably be out for the rest of the 2026 Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League season. Gotham confirmed that she did bear surgical procedure.
Sonnett’s harm occurred on Friday, July 24, in Gotham’s 2-2 draw in opposition to the Portland Thorns at Windfall Park. She was substituted off within the eleventh minute and changed by veteran defender Mandy Freeman.
“Emily has the full support of everyone at the club, and we will be with her every step of the way throughout her recovery,” Yael Averbuch West, president of soccer operations for Gotham FC, mentioned through a press launch. “She is incredibly resilient, and we know she will return stronger.”
Sonnett, who’s 32, joined Gotham forward of the 2024 NWSL season, and was on the 2025 NWSL Championship-winning workforce. She additionally received an NWSL Championship with the Portland Thorns in 2017 and the Washington Spirit in 2021.
Sonnett started her NWSL profession in Portland, the place she made 72 appearances for the Thorns from 2016-19. In 2020, she had a brief stint with the Orlando Delight earlier than becoming a member of Swedish aspect Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC, the place she received the league title and made 10 appearances. She got here again to the U.S. in 2021, and featured for the Washington Spirit for 2 seasons. After a one-year stint with OL Reign — now the Seattle Reign — in 2023, she joined Gotham in 2024.
Sonnett can be a FIFA Girls’s World Cup winner, claiming the title with the U.S. ladies’s nationwide workforce in 2019.
With the U.S., Sonnett holds 118 appearances for her nation. She received the Olympic gold medal in 2024, and a bronze medal in 2020. She’s a two-time Concacaf Girls’s Championship winner, a one-time Concacaf Girls’s Gold Cup winner and an eight-time SheBelieves Cup winner. She earned her one centesimal look for her nation in 2024.
