Look at the stands no one there to care or pay her salary
Who watches such a loser sport with lesbian anti-Americans as their spokespeople? What freaks and losers.
I don't know where this photo of Rapinoe kneeling was taken. She doesn't seem to be wearing a national team uniform, so I presume it's a club game. The USWNT has drawn an average attendance of 15-16,000 a game this year. It drew over 27,000 last year, but that was inflated by the "victory tour" crowds after the World Cup win. The NWSL is averaging about 6,000 a game this season. Right-sizing the stadium is important; a full house makes for a much more spirited fan environment and is more fun all around -- and in a smaller stadium, there are no bad seats ....
I am not hung up on crowd sizes per se. U.S. team sports are dominated by football, baseball, and basketball. Hockey is a very distant fourth. Soccer is fifth and may overtake hockey in the foreseeable future. Attendance is what it is. The U.S. men's professional soccer league has clearly reached financial viability and is secure going forward. The game can grow at its own rate provided that the right structure is in place.
The challenge right now is getting women's professional soccer to the same point. Women's sports are simply not competitive with men's sports in attendance and revenues anywhere in the world, in any sport. So what? That doesn't mean they shouldn't be played. They should be played, and enjoyed, for their own sake, at whatever level the player and fan base can support. Women's golf and tennis seem to be sustainable at a professional level. No women's team sport, yet, can say the same. U.S. women's soccer, however, seems to be approaching that point. This should be welcomed and encouraged.
On the men's side, U.S. soccer is behind the rest of the world, where soccer is the preeminent sport and thus the sport of choice for most of the best athletes. The U.S. men are a respectable second tier team, but are no threat to win a major tournament. On the women's side, however, U.S. soccer is the best in the world. I'm willing to guess that U.S. attendance figures for the women's game are ahead of the rest of the world as well. They are what they are.
The key thing at this point is achieving financial viability for the professional league so that the top players can continue to develop after college. The international nature of the sport makes things complicated and involve issues related to government support and/or funding from national sports federations or men's leagues. The U.S. provides better support for women's sports at the youth league, high school, and college level than do most other countries. But we expect women's professional soccer to stand on its own. That's the current challenge.