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Important news for Michael Wilson and Sophia Smith: The sports power couple tie the knot

USWNT international Sophia Smith and NFL player Michael Wilson have confirmed that they got married this weekend.

Update: Jan 28th, 2025 13:55 EST

The sports world is celebrating! On the afternoon of Saturday, January 26, USWNT star Sophia Smith and Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Michael Wilson tied the knot after a six-month engagement.

The couple got married in the desert. According to Wilson, who spoke to ESPN in November 2024, the wedding was to be a small celebration with around 30 guests.

Initially, the event had only been tentatively pencilled in for this weekend, in case the Cardinals made it to the Super Bowl on February 9. The plan then got the final go-ahead when Arizona failed to qualify for the NFL playoffs, finishing with only the 10th-best regular-season record in the NFC.

“The Wilsons”

News of the wedding was confirmed in a post on Instagram, where the couple shared moments from their big day. In the photos, the USWNT international is seen wearing a simple white dress with a light veil, while the Cardinals player donned an elegant black suit.

“The Wilsons,” reads the caption in one post on the social-media platform, which has already garnered over 100,000 likes.

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Parenthood my “calling”, Smith says

After getting engaged to Wilson in June 2024, Smith revealed she was eager to join the list of USWNT players who have ventured into motherhood, stating she would have no problem pausing her professional career for a while.

“I feel like, aside from soccer, that’s what I feel is my calling, to be a mom‚” Smith revealed in an interview for the Cardinals’ website last autumn. “My career, it has to stop for a period of time when I am pregnant so that’s not something we can just let happen at any moment. [But] we’ve been patient for a long time.”

The couple have been together for six years, having first met and fallen in love during their time at Stanford University.

Article originally written in Spanish, before being translated with the assistance of AI and edited by William Allen.

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