{"id":1993009,"date":"2023-08-07T11:04:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T15:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-womens-soccer-teams-polarizing-politics-put-them-at-risk-of-being-irrelevant-alexi-lalas\/"},"modified":"2023-08-07T11:05:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T15:05:12","slug":"us-womens-soccer-teams-polarizing-politics-put-them-at-risk-of-being-irrelevant-alexi-lalas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-womens-soccer-teams-polarizing-politics-put-them-at-risk-of-being-irrelevant-alexi-lalas\/","title":{"rendered":"US women&#8217;s soccer team&#8217;s political stance risks making them insignificant: Alexi Lalas."},"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\">24<\/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%2Fus-womens-soccer-teams-polarizing-politics-put-them-at-risk-of-being-irrelevant-alexi-lalas%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=1993009&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--><h2>Retired Soccer Player Warns \u200bof Potential Irrelevance \u2064for U.S. Women&#8217;s National\u2062 Team<\/h2>\n<p>Renowned \u2064soccer player turned Fox Sports analyst, Alexi Lalas, has expressed \u200bconcern over the \u2064U.S. \u2062women&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/build-a-stadium-fifas-infantino-urges-kyrgyzstan\/\" title=\"FIFA's Infantino urges Kyrgyzstan to construct a stadium.\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-womens-soccer-team-kneels-for-anthem-wears-black-lives-matter\/\" title=\"US Women's Soccer Team Kneels for Anthem, Wears 'Black Lives Matter'\">national team<\/a>&#8216;<\/a>s recent loss at the FIFA\u2062 World \u2064Cup, suggesting that it puts them at risk of &#8220;becoming irrelevant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In response to a user&#8217;s comment on X (formerly known as Twitter), Lalas highlighted the team&#8217;s &#8220;polarizing&#8221;\u2062 politics, which \u2064he believes have made them &#8220;unlikeable.&#8221; This sentiment arose after a group \u200cof players refused to sing the\u200d national \u2064anthem during \u200bSunday&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t kill the \u200dmessenger. This\u2064 #USWNT is polarizing,&#8221; Lalas posted. &#8220;Politics, \u200ccauses, stances, &#038; behavior have\u2062 made this \u2063team unlikeable to \u200ca\u200c portion of America. \u2063This team has built its \u2064brand and has derived its \u2063power from being the \u2062best\/winning. If that goes away they risk becoming irrelevant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Sweden&#8217;s Victory Shakes Up \u2064Women&#8217;s World Cup<\/h3>\n<p>The\u2064 Associated Press reported that \u200cSweden emerged victorious over\u2063 the U.S. in the Women&#8217;s World Cup, winning 5-4\u200c on\u2062 penalties.\u200c This defeat \u200dmarked the first \u200dtime in the team&#8217;s history that they were eliminated in the Round of 16.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. women&#8217;s national team, boasting an \u2062impressive record of four World Cup titles, had aimed to\u200b secure a third consecutive \u2063championship but\u200d fell\u200b short of their goal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"link-to-read-more\">Click here \u200dto\u200c read more from \u200cThe Washington \u200cExaminer<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Former President Trump Weighs In<\/h3>\n<p>Former\u200d President Donald Trump also\u2063 voiced\u2064 his \u200dopinion on the \u200cmatter, taking to\u200b Truth Social to \u2064assert that the team&#8217;s lack of respect for their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-womens-soccer-teams-polarizing-politics-put-them-at-risk-of-being-irrelevant-alexi-lalas\/\" title=\"US women's soccer team's political stance risks making them insignificant: Alexi Lalas.\">nation ultimately cost<\/a> them the game.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that \u200bMegan Rapinoe, one of the players on the U.S.\u200d team, is \u200cnot only recognized for her soccer skills\u200b but also for her activism in support\u200d of LGBT rights and gender equality. In fact, she\u2064 was \u200dhonored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom \u200blast year. Rapinoe has previously announced that this year&#8217;s\u2064 World Cup would be \u2062her final appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired soccer player and Fox Sports analyst Alexi Lalas warned that the U.S. women&#8217;s national team&#8217;s recent World Cup defeat could make them &#8220;irrelevant.&#8221; Lalas, responding on X (formerly Twitter), attributed the team&#8217;s unpopularity to divisive politics, labeling them as &#8220;polarizing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1993010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993009","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1993010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}