Megan Rapinoe gives powerful speech as she accepts Best FIFA Women's Player award.
Rapinoe, 34,won the Best FIFA Women's Player 2019, given to the top women's soccer player in the world, at a ceremony in Milan.
"I feel like if we really want to have meaningful change, what I think is most inspiring would be if everybody else was as outraged about racism as they are," she said,"if everybody was as outraged about homophobia as the LGBTQ players, if everybody was as outraged about equal pay or the lack thereof or the lack of investment in the women's game other than just women, that would be the most inspiring thing to me.
“I hope you take that to heart and just do something, do anything," Rapinoe added."We have incredible power in this room.”
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