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The Great Megan Rapinoe of Women’s Soccer of the US team. Uu. It is standing for what he said in 2019.
“You can’t win championships without gays,” he told his wife, Sue Bird during his podcast “Touch More.”
Rapinoe said something with the same effect during the Women’s World Cup title of the US team. In 2019 after a quarterfinal victory over France, the host country of the tournament of that year.
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Ol Reign Forward Megan Rapinoe Waves during a ceremony in honor of his career, after the team’s NWSL football match against Washington Spirit, on Friday, October 6, 2023, in Seattle. The spirit and reign played with a goalless draw in the last game at the house of the regular Rapinoe season before their retirement at the end of the season. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
“Go gays!” Rapinoe said at that time, according to The Guardian. “You can’t win a championship without gays on your team: it has never been done before, never. That’s science, right there!
“I am motivated by people who like me, who fight for the same things. I take more energy than to try to demonstrate something bad. That is exhausting for yourself. But for me, being gay and fabulous, during the month of pride in the World Cup, it is pleasant.”
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Now is the month of pride, which caused Bird to Rapinoe about what it means to play during him.
“Our team was super gay in 2019,” Rapinoe replied. “Many of us were out, many of our fans were gay, many of the other players were gay. First and easier to ensure that you have are homosexual players in our team.”
In 2019, the US team had five players who were publicly LGBTQ players. Ali Krieger and Ashlyn Harris, two of the team’s stars, were committed at that time, while coach Jillian Ellis was also out.
That year, Outsports also reported that around 40 lesbian and bisexual players participated in the Women’s World Cup compared to less than 20 in 2015.
Rapinoe helped the efforts of the US team to win the consecutive world cups in 2019, demolishing the Netherlands, 2-0, where Rapinoe scored a penalty in the 61st minute to take the lead.
Megan Rapinoe attends the game between Indiana Fever and New York Liberty on May 18, 2024, at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. (Stephen Gosling/NBAE through Getty Images)
Rapinoe had six goals and two assists for five games in that women’s World Cup, while scoring two goals and distributing two assists in the 2015 victory.
The US team could not do three consecutive in 2023, since they were eliminated by Sweden on penalties. Rapinoe announced that the 2023 tournament would be his last World Cup, and although he wanted him to end differently, he noticed to feel “so lucky and so grateful to play as much as me.”
Outside the countryside, Rapinoe has been Franco, even after the 2019 victory, where he said that “I’m not going to the White House”, while President Donald Trump was in his first mandate. He also told his US team. Uu. They think a lot “of going to the White House before facing France in the quarterfinals, which led Trump to tweet” Megan should win first before speaking! Finish the job! We haven’t done yet … “
“Megan should never miss our country, the White House or our flag, especially because it has been done so much for it and the team. Be proud of the flag you use. The United States is very good!” Trump added on his tweets at that time.
Rapinoe also commented on an anterior episode of his podcast with Bird after Trump beat former vice president Kamala Harris in the presidential elections of 2024, saying that he felt “overwhelmed” that he would be in office again.
Megan Rapinoe, football legend and co -founder of Touch more speaks during the Sport Summit women presented by Deep Blue Sports and Axios in Chelsea Factory on April 23, 2024 in New York City. (Elsa/Getty Images)
“I think I feel, not so much scared personally, because I think we live in very progressive places, we are incredibly privileged in our place in the world and life and financially and all these things, but I think that fear extends only to people in general who will really be affected,” Rapinoe explained to Bird. “I am thinking of all my trans friends and people I know and trans children. I am thinking about the potential of mass deportations if that will happen, and just like the general chaos that will be sown is really overwhelming.”
In 2023 appearances with the US team. In his career, Rapinoe scored 63 goals and had 73 assists with his two World Cup titles. He also had 56 goals and 34 assists in his 13 -year -old professional league at the WPS and NWSL.
