{"id":1676022,"date":"2022-10-06T11:56:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T15:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1676022"},"modified":"2022-10-06T11:57:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T15:57:11","slug":"soccer-u-s-players-angry-exhausted-after-report-on-abuse-says-rapinoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/soccer-u-s-players-angry-exhausted-after-report-on-abuse-says-rapinoe\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer-U.S. players \u2018angry, exhausted\u2019 after report on abuse, says Rapinoe"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsoccer-u-s-players-angry-exhausted-after-report-on-abuse-says-rapinoe%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1676022&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Frank Pingue<\/p>\n<p>(Reuters) \u2013     Megan Rapinoe said on Thursday she and her fellow U.S. women\u2019s national team members are angry and exhausted in the wake of a scathing report into allegations of abuse and sexual misconduct in the National Women\u2019s Soccer League (NWSL).<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>The independent investigation released on Monday revealed player abuse within women\u2019s professional soccer in the United States was systemic and that the NWSL and governing U.S. Soccer body failed to adequately protect players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really sad to say, but in a way I think we are used to having to deal with one thing or another,\u201d Rapinoe said ahead of Friday\u2019s friendly against England at Wembley Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems to bring us closer and definitely unify the team and it\u2019s just one of those sort of intimate environments that we are in that we\u2019re used to taking on a lot and playing in these kind of conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The twice World Cup winner also felt it was imperative to see accountability and singled out Portland Thorns owner Merritt Paulson and Chicago Red Stars owner Arnim Whisler, who were both named in the report.<\/p>\n<p>In the aftermath of the report, Paulson removed himself from the team\u2019s decision making while Whisler was ousted as chairman but neither indicated plans to sell the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think that Merritt Paulson is fit to be the owner of that team. I don\u2019t think Arnim is fit to be the owner of Chicago,\u201d said Rapinoe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to see those people gone. So people who are fit and who will take care of the game and respect the game and help the game grow and the best way possible can replace them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Rapinoe acknowledged it has been a difficult stretch for members of the national squad, she was thankful to be together with her team mates and looking forward to the welcome distraction of being on the field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are angry, exhausted, together and unified so it\u2019s kind of all of it. But it\u2019s nice to be here together as a team,\u201d said Rapinoe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing able to be on the field to have not just a head coach, but an entire staff that supports us fully on and off the field where we can step on the field and do our job is something that I think is a safe haven for all of us.\u201d        <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Frank Pingue in Toronto, editing by Ed Osmond)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/soccer-u-s-players-angry-exhausted\/attachment\/international-womens-friendly-united-states-press-conference\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI950U4-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI950U4-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Frank Pingue (Reuters) \u2013 Megan Rapinoe said on Thursday she and her fellow U.S. women\u2019s national team members are angry and exhausted in the wake of a scathing report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1676022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1676022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1676022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1676022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1676022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}