{"id":261355,"date":"2026-09-07T04:48:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T04:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/dickey-forced-to-exit-with-bloody-head-equalizer-soccer\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T04:48:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T04:48:38","slug":"dickey-forced-to-exit-with-bloody-head-equalizer-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/dickey-forced-to-exit-with-bloody-head-equalizer-soccer\/","title":{"rendered":"Dickey forced to exit with bloody head \u2013 Equalizer Soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Seattle Reign and U.S. women\u2019s national team goalkeeper Claudia Dickey was forced to exit the match against San Diego with a bloody head injury Sunday night. Head coach Laura Harvey said postgame that Dickey went to the hospital to get stitches.<\/p>\n

The injury occurred in the 81st minute as Dickey was saving a shot by the Wave\u2019s Ludmila. On the follow-through, Ludmila\u2019s knee and then foot made significant contact with Dickey\u2019s head. Dickey initially got up as play went on, but then sat herself off the field next to the goal. Blood could be seen running down Dickey\u2019s face from her forehead as trainers attended to her for five minutes. After having her head wrapped over the cut and taking off her blood-stained jersey, she was helped up and walked off the field down the nearest tunnel. Cassie Miller replaced her to see out the game.<\/p>\n

Dickey was awarded Player of the Match honors in her team\u2019s 1-0 home win over San Diego Wave. She recorded six saves, a couple of them much more difficult ones, which were key to the shutout.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew we had to be big defensively and that that was going to be a whole team effort \u2026 but our goalkeepers really stepped up,\u201d veteran defender Sofia Huerta said postgame. \u201cClaudia, on that last save, I mean she literally put her body on the line for us. Unfortunately, she did have to come out and has a little like gash on her forehead, but Cassie came in and did her job, and we\u2019re extremely proud of both of them.\u201d<\/p>\n


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Photo Credit: Steven Bisig-Imagn Images Seattle Reign and U.S. women\u2019s national team goalkeeper Claudia Dickey was forced to exit the match against San Diego with a bloody head injury Sunday night. Head coach Laura Harvey said postgame that Dickey went to the hospital to get stitches. The injury occurred in the 81st minute as Dickey […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":261356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6805],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-261355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-womens"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}