Solo was convicted of a March 31 incident in which passersby found her unconscious in the parking lot of a Winston-Salem mall behind the wheel of a car with her 2-year-old twins in the backseat. According to witnesses, Solova was unconscious behind the wheel of the car for more than an hour while the engine was still running. The policeman smelled alcohol on her during the arrest, she herself refused to undergo a field sobriety test. After her arrest, she was released and began inpatient alcohol treatment a month later.
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Originally, Solová was also accused of resisting and abusing children, but these charges were later withdrawn. She apologized for her behavior on social networks. “I underestimated how destructive alcohol had become in my life. I made a huge mistake, by far the biggest mistake of my life,” she wrote on Monday.
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One of the best goalkeepers in history, she helped the USA win the World Cup and two Olympic Games. Solová played 202 matches for the national team, in which she recorded 153 wins and a record 102 clean sheets. She has had disciplinary problems throughout her career and has a history of arrests for assault. She was cut from the US national team after calling the Swedish team cowards at the 2016 Rio Olympics, which beat the favored Americans on penalties in the quarterfinals. She was scheduled to be inducted into the National Hall of Fame at the end of April, but due to her problems, she asked to postpone the ceremony.
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