In a strange sort of way, I kind of agree with Meg the Choker here. She did change the world forever with her and her loser teammates getting thousands upon thousands of Americans to root against their own national soccer team for the first time ever. We are so far removed from 1980 at Lake Placid with the US Hockey Team beating the USSR, that we’ve come to this.
Following Team USA’s earliest-ever World Cup elimination Sunday after a shootout loss to Sweden, U.S. women’s soccer veteran Megan Rapinoe — who badly missed a penalty kick during the shootout — took solace in her squad’s social activism that she said “changed the world forever.”
A reporter asked Rapinoe if a memory stands out to her in regard to how she impacted Team USA over the years, and Rapinoe — who’s made a name for herself during that time by espousingleft-wingsocial views — said it was fighting for equal pay with male players.
“I think this team has always fought for so much more, and that’s been the most rewarding part for me — of course, playing in World Cups and winning championships and doing all that, but … to know that we’ve used our really special talent to do something, you know, that’s really like changed the world forever. I think that means the most to me.”