I, as well took my young daughters to see USWNT matches and other women's soccer matches. It's a good sport for young folks, and it teaches individual and teamwork. They meet some great kids, and I believe that soccer tends to keep kids away from bad influences. (At least in our cases).
Both did quite well (even though their coach was moi at the younger ages) and ended up playing in div 1 schools.)
That said, some of the players at the top of womens soccer are currently the bad influences. I don't care about Miss Rapinoe's sexual choices, but I do care that she hates our great country, she's an ingrate about the opportunities afforded her, and that Miss Rapinoe uses her influence to hurt the sport and potentially unhealthy messages (men participating in womens sports, for example).
Megan Rapinoe has been a poisonous influence for a long time. I’m glad she’s retiring. But I can’t put the entire blame on Rapinoe. Look at what the colleges and pros have done. Look at what the media does on BLM and gender war issues. And the leadership of U.S. Soccer has been as feckless as the leadership of the NCAA, the NFL, NBA and MLB, and most of corporate America.
Consider Riley Gaines and the other women on the UPenn swimming team who objected to sharing their locker room and showers with a mentally ill man who wants to strut around naked, hasn’t had the decency — since he claims to be transitioning — to get himself castrated, lets it be known that he still prefers to date women, and says that it’s ok because he is a lesbian. A number of the women swimmers objected, and UPenn threatened them with loss of scholarships and recommendations for grad schools and jobs. Instead of protecting women’s spaces, UPenn told the protesting women that they needed reeducation. Like all of her ilk, Rapinoe wants to pose as a heroic protester speaking the truth to power. But in fact she’s just a cheap bully squarely on the side of the woke mob. And the U.S. courts side with the mob.
So the problem isn’t really one obnoxious soccer player. The problem is that American elites have capitulated. And I don’t have a solution for that.
Hating America is now the curriculum in American schools. That’s the problem.