Posted on 11/29/2020 3:23:48 PM PST by MarvinStinson
The U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT) wore Black Lives Matter Jackets to their international friendly match against the Netherlands on Friday.
In a message posted before the game, USWNT star Alex Morgan said the team chose to wear the jackets as a way to “affirm human decency,” and as a stand against “racial injustice and police brutality.”
“We love our country, and it is a true honor to represent America,” Morgan wrote. “It is also our duty to demand that the liberties and freedoms that our country was founded on extend to everyone.”
The Twitter account for the U.S. Women’s National Team posted a video supporting the team’s decision to wear the jackets. However, they stressed that the move was “a statement on human rights,” and “not political.”
USWNT members took a knee before the start of the game, as they have at many international friendly’s and tournaments over the years.
The team gained notoriety during the 2019 Women’s World Cup for frequent and profane statements against President Trump. Perhaps most outspoken of the USWNT stars was co-captain and leading scorer Megan Rapinoe, who said she was not going to the f*ck*ng White House” to visit President Trump if the USWNT won the tournament. She also once said that “We have a white nationalist – I think – in the White House.”
The U.S. Soccer Federation imposed a ban on anthem protests after Rapinoe chose to kneel during the anthem in 2016. However, they reversed the ban in June of this year.
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I won’t feel to bad if a high school soccer team in Timbuktu kicks their asses.
Julie Ertz
Kelly OHara
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Did they wear the Marxist, anti-American, anti-Christian jackets?
Did they stand up for and speak out for Jaelene Hinkle who couldn’t play for the team because she kept strong in her Christian beliefs?
No they did not. I have more respect for the other ones who are at least consistent in their beliefs. You know what you get unlike lost souls like Ertz and O’hara who you would like to believe in and then they let you down when it’s most important.
How to we defund them, or eliminate ýmthe players from representing us? Would rather lose than have this crap.
Has their ever been a bigger gaggle of ingrates than these rabid America-hating dykes?
Kind of like having The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army (FARC) represent the Colombian Soccer Team.
They don’t love this country, they love what they want it to be which is based in liberal fundamentalism. They also don’t represent the country, they represent themselves and their individual ideologies. They are pathetic as far as I am concerned, much like the NFL kneelers.
Little girls belonging to the Hater’s Girl’s Club.
this is another group that I wish a cold cold lunch of consequences....detest these ingrates....
and no, Alex, you do not love your country...
oh I’m definitely rooting for other countries now.....
“Who owns/manages the USA women’s national soccer team?”
It is funded and the players are paid by the U.S. Soccer Federation. The United States Soccer Federation (USSF), commonly referred to as U.S. Soccer, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and the official governing body of the sport of soccer in the United States. Currently headquartered in Chicago, the FIFA member governs American soccer at the international, professional and amateur levels.
A history of their funding and problems financially is here and they are a tax free organization:
wy69
So they’re supporting a worn out web meme that’s now in overtime on it’s 15 minutes.
How many points do they get for “virtue signaling”?
I’ll continue not watching.
Only one American, maybe two, among a bunch of sluts.
Two young ladies stand. One with her hand over her heart. That one young lady is the hope for the future of America. A leader.
btt!
It won’t be long before all these “sports” will fail from crap like this and then it will be nothing but SHOOTING SPORTS !!! (meaning it will be on ALL Broadcasts)
Politics and business do not mix well with customers. Especially when an area is 50% / 50%. Sports have become a large business.
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