Megan Rapinoe says forward Jenni Hermoso was ‘physically assaulted’ by the Spanish football president after the team’s World Cup victory
“It’s a compilation of hit words and hot-button words that don’t actually make any sort of sense or square with reality at all,” she said. “I think, just in general, the way that our team was spoken about over the course of the tournament, it was fake. And it didn’t make sense to me: In 2019, we were ultra-confident, ultra-swaggy – and won everything. And even though we won, we did it in bad taste, according to our critics … it’s just so disingenuous.
Rapinoe said that the reaction to the US women’s team World Cup defeat was symptomatic of a wider problem in America. “One thing that America does really well is backlash. I think there’s a huge backlash against women happening right now,” she added. “I think we see that with theShe also denied the team, many of whom do not sing the anthem before games, were unpatriotic, a common criticism from the right.
“I’ll miss being able to represent our country,” she said. “I think, a lot of times, that gets lost, when people talk about me in particular: ‘Oh, you guys don’t sing the anthem, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You don’t love America.’ But we do love America. It’s just more in a James Baldwin kind of way, not in a bald-eagle-on-your-shoulder kind of way.”
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