The thing about Rapinoe, aside from her political BS, is she ISN'T THAT GOOD.
She is winning all the attention due to her political BS, and our previous coach, who is gay, had a thing for her. >shudder<
If you know your soccer, she has usually been a sub until this WC. She's old, slow, and can't do much with her left foot.
Yes, she scored lots of goals in the WC, but most were on PKs. You are supposed to make PKs unless you choke. Other than that, she didn't go back on defense, stayed tight by the sideline, and overall played pretty poorly. That was my position when I played, and, you were supposed to be all over the field, end line to end line, side line to side line to make plays.
I have never liked her attitude, well before her political "stand". She is a "look at me" player, and I hate those. From her stupid platinum hair, to her over the top celebrations, lurking in the background or coming up to hug and scream a teammate who is being interviewed, she has to be in the spotlight.
Their are women on this team that are much better than her, and she couldn't clean the mud out of the cleats of some of the women who played the position before her. It galls me to no end to see that her flapping her ugly face is positioning her as the best of USWNT, and, she just won the most prestigious international award, so I guess this nasty old ex-sub is thought of as the best in the world?
Well played, Rapinoe. You even stole kneeling. Your reasons are not the initial reasons Colin K. knelt.
I want someone to Theisman her leg. Seriously. She is ruining women's soccer here.