Perspective: USWNT star Megan Rapinoe helped create a new prototype for female sports icons: audacious, unapologetically competitive and not afraid to offend.
“Everybody struggles in different ways,” Rapinoe said. “We’re not all going to struggle the same — on the field, off the field, emotionally, physically, mentally.”decided to take a knee during the national anthem
Said Cook, a 26-year-old participating in her first World Cup: “I think she’s someone who will ride as hard for a cause that affects her as one that doesn’t, which is really special. It’s what makes her such a good leader. It’s what makes her such a good human, to be empathetic and see the humanity in others and fight for it. I think it’s always worth taking the venom, taking the pushback when you know that you’re on the right side, when you know that you’re fighting for people who need it.
“Megan has been working toward stepping off the pitch for about three years now,” said Jessica Clarendon, the chief operating officer of Rapinoe Ventures whose relationship with the player dates from their days playing high school basketball against each other in California. “She saw that she could build a business around who she is. Her retirement is intentional. She wants to create a blueprint for what a post-career can look like for female athletes now.
“You’ve changed me,” Bird told her that day. “You’ve changed my life. You’ve changed how I see things. You brought it out of me. It was in there. I just didn’t know how to get to it. And you saw it right away.”
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