Soccer Star Ali Krieger Says She’s looking forward and feels happy after Divorce with Ashlyn Harris

Ashlyn Harris, the former U.S. Women’s National Team, retired from professional football recently. She also got separated from Ashlyn Harris, but she has her hopes high and has reflected that she is looking forward in life. 

On January 16, on the red carpet at the Law & Order: SVU 25th Anniversary Celebration, she talked to E! News, she said that she has never been happier and is very excited about the future and for a new chapter which involves making new memories with her kids that she shared with Ashlyn, 17 months old son Ocean and 2-year-old daughter with Sloane.

She is 39, and she stated that is very excited to discover and explore a new passion and is excited to spend more time with her kids, plus she was happy to go and visit family and friends whenever she likes. 

She also intends to add additional play dates with friends and family time to her schedule of social events with her children & wants to go to brunches, birthday celebrations, and get-togethers at the playground.

Divorce from Ashlyn Harris

After almost four years of marriage, Us Weekly verified in October 2023 that Harris, 38, had filed for divorce from Krieger the month before.

The U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team is where the two first connected, and in December 2019, they got married. They adopted Ocean in August 2022, and Sloane about two years later.

Ali Krieger (Credits: Getty Images)

Krieger expressed her desire to continue healing and continue to have a deeper relationship with herself and discover herself a little bit deeper on that type of level. After being a single mother in 2024, telling E! News, she said that she has not had much time for herself. 

Ali Krieger’s views on Co-parenting

When she was asked about co-parenting, she just said, “So far, so good.” You can assume the conclusion as you like. 

After almost four years of marriage, Ashlyn filed for divorce in September, but the information wasn’t made public until the following month.

The 41-year-old was reportedly seeing Sophia Bush at the same time, who was going through her divorce from her husband Grant Hughes. One Tree Hill star and Hughes split 16 days after commemorating their first wedding anniversary in June 2023, according to court records that Us was able to get in August 2023.

Ali Krieger’s response to Ashlyn Harris

Krieger appeared to react to Harris’s recent romantic involvement at the time by posting an Instagram picture of her children. She wrote her happy place, as the post’s caption.

In another Instagram post, Krieger shared pictures of herself playing soccer and claimed to be in her ‘Beyonce lemonade time’. Krieger refrained from directly accusing Harris of infidelity, even though Beyoncé, 42, released her 2016 album Lemonade following her husband Jay-Z’s exposure as a cheater.

Ali Krieger
Ali Krieger (Credits: Getty Images)

In a long Instagram message, Harris denied that she had been unfaithful, everything that had been going on behind closed doors was made public a few weeks ago.

In November 2023 she said that it was not an easy decision to end a relationship after nearly 13 years of friendship, teammates, marriage, and co-parenting (many happy years). They decided to separate, keep up the therapy, center their kids, and move on with their lives.

Harris added, that two happy families are always better than an unhappy one, the process is never easy, but they were making their way through.

Wealthy Genius claims that Ali Krieger has a net worth of an astounding $2.5 million at the moment. Her football career has contributed significantly to her income.

Also, there’s no denying that Ali has made a respectable sum of money from his sponsorship deals. She has been a professional athlete for Nike since 2007 and only ever uses the company’s training gear and cleats.

Additionally, Ali has been in several Nike advertisements, most of which highlight the Nike+ Training Club app. She collaborated with ZICO and Smuckers on many promos and unique content for the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics.

Ali has played for the FIFA Women’s World Cup squad in 2011, 2015, and 2019 and has made 108 appearances with the USWNT. She has been an integral player of the American women’s football team for more than ten years.

Ali struck the game-winning penalty kick in the thrilling quarterfinal shootout win over Brazil at the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup.