Women's World Cup

Wednesday

July 19, 2023

Megan Rapinoe wants to be the last female sports star

Megan Rapinoe, the sometimes blue, sometimes pink-haired star forward on the US Women’s National Soccer Team, announced earlier this month that she will retire after the 2023 Women’s World Cup. Rapinoe is a talented soccer player and an American success story. She grew up relatively modestly and her older brother, her inspiration to start playing soccer, suffered from a heroin addiction and spent time in prison. Rapinoe managed to avoid the all too common injury-to-opioid addiction pipeline that crippled her equally athletic fraternal twin sister’s soccer career.

Megan Rapinoe #15 of Team United States speaks to members of the media (Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)

Thursday

June 13, 2019

Matt McDonald

In America, we have no sense of a soccer scandal

Did you hear how the US women’s national team plunged to scandalous depths this week? The most successful outfit in the history of women’s soccer disgraced the nation by...celebrating the goals they scored in the opening game of the Women’s World Cup. A 13-0 victory against tournament minnows Thailand is hardly the most captivating way to suck the Twittersphere into caring about one of America’s best teams: of course a closer game would make for a more exciting watch. So the broadcasters and American media plumped for a different approach to stirring up interest: by fabricating a controversy. ‘Zero problem with the score line as this is THE tournament BUT celebrating goals (like #9) leaves a sour taste in my mouth like many of you.