--- description: Abby Wambach is set to play her final game on Wednesday night in New Orleans. title: Abby Wambach Wants Fans to Forget Her in New Tearjerker Commercial image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch Abby Wambach's New Tearjerker Commercial  by [Megan McCluskey](/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Dec 16, 2015 10:23 PM CUT  by [Megan McCluskey](/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Dec 16, 2015 10:23 PM CUT After leading the [U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team](http://time.com/4089383/president-obama-honors-uswnt-for-world-cup-win/ "undefined") to a [World Cup championship](http://time.com/3946390/carli-lloyd-womens-world-cup-win/ "undefined") earlier this year, Abby Wambach is set to play her final game on Wednesday night in New Orleans. The 35-year-old superstar has had an incredible career. Along with her World Cup victory, she also won two Olympic gold medals, became the world’s all-time leading goal scorer (man or woman), and was recognized as one of [TIME’s 100 in 2015](http://time.com/3823298/abby-wambach-2015-time-100/ "undefined"). But in a Gatorade commercial released on the same day that Wambach will take the field for the last time, her message to fans is: “forget me.” The spot features Wambach cleaning out her locker as she delivers a poignant voiceover during which she speaks about her hopes for the athletes that will come after her: “I want to leave a legacy where the ball keeps rolling forward, where the next generation accomplishes things so great that I am no longer remembered. So forget me, because the day I’m forgotten is the day we will succeed.” Watch the full ad above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4152509/abby-wambach-wants-fans-to-forget-her-commercial/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4152509/abby-wambach-wants-fans-to-forget-her-commercial/"},"headline":"Watch Abby Wambach's New Tearjerker Commercial","datePublished":"2015-12-16T22:23:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-07-21T07:15:01.070Z","description":"\"The day I’m forgotten is the day we will succeed\"","url":"https://time.com/4152509/abby-wambach-wants-fans-to-forget-her-commercial/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Sports topic","Athletes","Soccer","TIME 100","commercial","Abby Wambach"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4152509/abby-wambach-wants-fans-to-forget-her-commercial/","name":"Watch Abby Wambach's New Tearjerker Commercial"}}]}] ```