Megan Rapinoe's retirement? What we know about USWNT star's future
Megan Rapinoe will retire from international competition after the 2023 World Cup. Earlier this month, the 38-year-old American said she would be hanging up her cleats after the 2023 NWSL season.
It will be the end of an incredible career for Rapinoe, who helped the U.S. Women’s National Team win two World Cups and an Olympic gold medal.
Throughout her career, Rapinoe has been a vocal supporter…
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Megan Rapinoe was directly involved in all four goals of her teams 4-1 victory last week. If she’s the call-up you’re still having problems with “based on club play” we’re not watching the same sport
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tobin heath + megan rapinoe + alex morgan
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ILOVE A ROSE AND PINOE CONNECTION
God bless that WAS BEAUTIFUL
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Big day for 2015 era USWNT stans
Megan Rapinoe brace
Sydney Leroux bicycle kick
Alex Morgan goal
Ali Krieger THE DEFENDER save
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Friendly reminder: MAGAts are going to be particularly loud and celebratory today over Megan Rapinoe’s retirement but before you involve yourself in an online argument you will never win, because arguing with them is like arguing with a brick wall, remember that Megan Rapinoe basically told Donald Trump to go fuck himself, he bitched about it on social media like a 13 year old girl and said “win before you talk” and then she went on to score 3 goals in 3 games and almost singlehandedly won America a fourth World Cup title.
And that’s something that they’ll have to live with forever. 😌
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you just forgot to mention lucy bronze is racist lol
hey, anons - that's why i qualified my original lucy bronze post by saying it's about her as a footballer. (also, i've never heard that saying/idiom about belly buttons, but i'm going to use it in the future!)
and one more point about fandom. i think we are in a place where we are scared to criticise our favourite players or acknowledge the grey areas of their lives. jenni hermoso is one of my favourite players ever. did she fuck up when she mocked the haka in new zealand with other players? yes she did and i will openly admit that. the team publicly apologised to māori elders, and i hope they all learned from that.
okay, so there are a lot of reasons why lucy bronze is a polarising figure. some barça fans were initially wary of her because of her past support for real madrid but also because of some of the mistakes she's made as rb (like the pajor goal in the uwcl final). for arsenal fans, i'm not an expert (maybe it's her age or the fact that she used to play for man city?...not sure).
but the bigger thing: i won't sugarcoat or make excuses for lucy's past and her support of mark sampson (who used racist language against two black england players). as someone who has suffered racist abuse myself, i know how harmful that is, and bias (whether conscious or subconscious) should be called out. i can only hope that lucy has grown and learned from her mistakes and is a different person now than she has been in the past.
(and for comparison this happened in 2017. meanwhile megan rapinoe started kneeling in 2016 in protest of racial inequality and police brutality and briefly lost her uswnt roster spot as a result.)
related to this, there have been a number of ignorant statements made by female players over the last few years on the issue of racism in football, and everyone needs to do better. no excuses.
for more background:
(and please don't argue that aluko deserved it because of her political views. racist abuse is racist abuse, period.)
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Player Profile: Megan Rapinoe
No better player to kick off these posts than the queen herself, Megan Rapinoe!
Position: Forward
Hometown: Redding, CA
Age: 37 (but will be 38 when she gets to the cup, birthday on July 5th)
Jersey Number: 15
Previous World Cups: 2011, 2015, 2019
USWNT Caps: 199 (it’ll be 200 by the cup with the sendoff match)
USWNT Goals: 63
Club Team: OL Reign obvi
College: University of Portland
Star Sign: Cancer
Nicknames: Pinoe, Sir P
Fun Fact: Megan is one of four sets of twins on the roster, and her sister Rachael also played professional soccer for a period of time.
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