Posted on 06/19/2019 9:07:33 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts
The best women's soccer players on the planet will lean on their loved ones for support as they vie for the trophy in the 2019 World Cup, which begins June 7.
For two players on Team USA, their partner will be right next to them on the bench: Defender Ali Krieger and goalkeeper Ashlyn Harris are engaged to be married.
The longtime couple went public with their relationship in March in People magazine. Together since 2010, the American soccer stars were engaged last September, and plan to marry in December.
Harris, 33, described to People how the relationship started: “We became really close friends, and we just hung out, we clicked, and we had so much in common. We always sat next to each other on the bus and on flights, and we kind of just talked about our dreams and our hopes and what we wanted to do one day when we grew up. ... The rest has kind of been history.”
The couple kept the relationship private for years, partly out of a desire to be "professional" as teammates (they also play together on the Orlando Pride of the National Women's Soccer League), Krieger said. But they felt comfortable sharing their engagement this spring.
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And I still don’t care about women’s soccer. Well, I don’t care about soccer at all, so there is that.
Follow the bouncing agenda.. Suhprize!!!
Their enjoyment of kicking balls makes more sense now.
Another reason to dislike soccer ... as if I needed more reasons.
So they left the straight woman off the roster because she wouldn’t wear LGBT t-shirt.
Would the gay women players ever wear a t-shirt supporting straight families and hetero sex?
Why do they feel that they have rights but others don’t?
I decided after I learned of this a few weeks ago that I really don’t need to watch the US women’s soccer team. The more I learn about them, the more it seems like a good decision.
>> For two players on Team USA, their partner will be right next to them on the bench <<
On the bench being the operative phrase. Ali Krieger plays for the Orlando Pride. Yup. Lesbian team name.
I’ve virtually tuned out of all televised sports.
The continual shoving “social justice” themes in my face has long worn out it’s time. Just let me watch the friggin’ game!
Oh. Good. Grief.
“engaged” to be “married”
Dude, here in northern Colorado, they’re bulldozing pitcher’s mounds in order to build soccer pitches on what were once baseball diamonds.
I doubt a baseball game was ever played there. It's now a soccer pitch.
That has to be one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen.
I don't keep a list, but of the current roster, Alex Morgan, Carli Lloyd and Julie Ertz are old married ladies. Crystal Dunn and Morgan Brian got married (to men) fairly recently. There may be more who have already gotten hitched; again, I don't keep a list. Most of the players are in their early to mid-20's and one wouldn't expect them to be married yet. A few are rumored to be gay, but so what. If they're closeted, we should respect their privacy.
The issue does come up for discussion more in women's sports than in men's simply because having children is so often a career ender for the women. Amy Rodriquez and Sydney Leroux are two current examples; both still play in the NWSL but their national team careers pretty much ended when they became moms. It's a familiar enough pattern that, when a female player gets married, people start asking how much longer she'll play. Christie Rampone just may qualify as the best athlete of either sex in the past generation. She turned 40 during the last World Cup, and she was still playing on the national team after having had three kids. That's pretty amazing. She's retired now.
Kind of makes you wonder why this is considered newsworthy.
To clarify: my point is that the media is pushing the gay angle much more than the players. What has changed in the last generation is that gay players are much less likely to hide. They live in a fishbowl, they get interviewed, and they are likelier to answer questions honestly. More of them are out, but aside from Rapinoe, the current players aren’t making waves. They want to concentrate on soccer and keep their personal lives out of the spotlight. Leave them alone.
Oh, we will. I'm not watching (and I'm a big Men's soccer fan)
Oh PLEASE....enough of this “queer’ cr*p!
It is posts like THAT...
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> ...which make me come back to FR day after day!
So? Some people like soccer. Every time I try to watch it, I find more entertainment watching the fans beat the hell out of one another. Aussie football, on the other hand, is a heck of a lot of fun to watch.
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