{"id":1996709,"date":"2023-08-10T14:13:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T18:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/megan-rapinoe-breaks-silence-after-painful-world-cup-elimination\/"},"modified":"2023-08-10T14:15:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T18:15:56","slug":"megan-rapinoe-breaks-silence-after-painful-world-cup-elimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/megan-rapinoe-breaks-silence-after-painful-world-cup-elimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan Rapinoe speaks out post World Cup heartbreak."},"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\">16<\/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%2Fmegan-rapinoe-breaks-silence-after-painful-world-cup-elimination%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=1996709&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>Megan Rapinoe Breaks Silence After Painful World Cup Elimination<\/h2>\n<p>U.S. soccer star Megan\u200b Rapinoe\u2062 addressed her team\u2019s stunning \u200bWorld Cup elimination earlier this week Wednesday on \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis game is\u2062 so \u2063beautiful, even in its cruelest\u200c moments. This group was \u200cso very special, and I \u200bam immensely proud of every single one of\u2063 us,\u201d Rapinoe wrote \u2064on \u200dInstagram.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Women\u2019s National Team lost to Sweden\u2062 in a penalty shootout in the round of 16 on Sunday in Melbourne, Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Rapinoe was one of the three\u2062 Americans to\u2062 miss, sending\u200d the\u2064 U.S. team to its \u2063earliest exit from a Women\u2019s\u200c World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/breaking-megan-rapinoes-career-coming-abrupt-end\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> in July this would \u2064be her \u2064last World Cup \u200das she made the decision \u2062to retire.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Not\u2062 only\u200d did the anti-American WOKE woman\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-women-suffer-earliest-world-cup-elimination-ever-as-rapinoe-misses-penalty-kick\/\" title=\"US women's World Cup journey ends prematurely as Rapinoe fails penalty kick.\">soccer team lose today<\/a>.<br \/>\nMegan Rapinoe missed\u200b a penalty kick \u2064that would have sealed\u2062 the win for the USA<br \/>\nTalk about \u200ba win-win <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S0hYPWX77E\">pic.twitter.com\/S0hYPWX77E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LangmanVince\/status\/1688156916571144192?\">August\u200b 6, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Rapinoe added, \u201cThis team\u2063 is in\u200c special hands as I walk away, just like it always was,\u2063 and always will be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause that is what this team is\u200b all about,\u201d she said. \u200c\u201cWe lay\u2062 it all out \u200con the line \u200cevery single\u200c time.\u2063 Fighting with everything that \u2063we have, for everything we deserve, for every person we \u2063possibly can.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been my \u2064honor\u2064 to play\u2062 for our country, with so many incredible [women],\u200b for so\u200b many years.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF;border: 0;border-radius: 3px;margin: 1px;max-width: 540px;min-width: 326px;padding: 0;width: calc(100% - 2px)\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CvvwAC2rgde\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px\">\n<div style=\"display: flex;flex-direction: row;align-items: center\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 50%;flex-grow: 0;height: 40px;margin-right: 14px;width: 40px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex;flex-direction: column;flex-grow: 1;justify-content: center\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 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style=\"color: #c9c8cd;font-family: Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 17px;margin-bottom: 0;margin-top: 8px;overflow: hidden;padding: 8px 0 7px;text-align: center\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd;font-family: Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;line-height: 17px;text-decoration: none\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CvvwAC2rgde\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A \u2064post shared by Megan Rapinoe She\/Her  \u200c(@mrapinoe)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While she is\u200b a gifted soccer player,\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/sports-radio-host-blasts-espns-tribute-megan-rapinoe-isnt-sports-left-wing-propaganda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rapinoe\u2019s career<\/a> often has been overshadowed by her off-the-field antics and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/megan-rapinoe-breaks-silence-after-painful-world-cup-elimination\/\" title=\"Megan Rapinoe speaks out post World Cup heartbreak.\">outspoken left-wing activism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview following\u2063 the Sunday loss, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/megan-rapinoe-called-psychopath-favorite-memory-playing-soccer-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was asked<\/a> what memory meant the most to her \u200dfrom her time \u2062with the USWNT.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than pointing to an on-field \u2064moment or World \u200cCup\u2062 victory, the soccer star cited the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/news\/sports\/us-womens-soccer-equal-pay-agreement-megan-rapinoe-alex-morgan-rcna17140\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">successful\u2063 effort<\/a> to win equal pay\u200d for\u200b the men\u2019s and women\u2019s national teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis team has always fought\u2062 for so much more,\u2062 and that\u2019s been\u2063 the most rewarding part for me,\u201d she \u200dsaid.<\/p>\n<p>Rapinoe was\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2020\/nov\/20\/megan-rapinoe-taking-knee-white-people-were-mad-book-extract-usa-womens-football\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">among the first<\/a> to \u200bjoin then-NFL \u2062player Colin Kaepernick in\u2062 kneeling for \u200dthe\u200b national anthem in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The soccer star \u200ccontinued to\u2062 protest the anthem in 2019 as what she called an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wc\/us-soccer-star-reveals-send-f-trump-anthem-world-cup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cF you\u201d to then-President Donald Trump<\/a> \u2062 and his administration.<\/p>\n<p>Trump mocked her failure in a Truth Social post Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>This year, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tennis-legend-martina-navratilova-calls-megan-rapinoe-trans-athletes-comments-really-megan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spoke out in favor<\/a> of allowing men who claim to\u2062 be women to\u2062 compete in women\u2019s sporting competitions.<\/p>\n<p>While Rapinoe\u2019s \u2062World Cups are in the past, she still has a few \u200bcompetitions left, \u2062as her\u200b final\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/story\/_\/id\/37979433\/uswnt-legend-megan-rapinoe-retire-end-2023-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">regular-season match<\/a> is \u2064set for Oct. 6\u2062 in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/megan-rapinoe-breaks-silence-painful-world-cup-elimination\/\">Megan Rapinoe Breaks Silence After \u200bPainful World Cup Elimination<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>soccer player Megan Rapinoe shared her thoughts on the team&#8217;s World Cup exit, acknowledging the 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