Posted on 08/06/2023 11:06:16 AM PDT by Republicans 2016 2020
It was not the ending Megan Rapinoe had planned.
She went so far as to call it "dark comedy" and a "sick joke", such was her dismay.
After 17 years of putting herself on the line for the Stars and Stripes, the two-time Women's World Cup winner was in tears as she departed the global stage for the final time.
On Rapinoe's 202nd appearance for the USA, the defending world champions dramatically lost 5-4 on penalties to Sweden after a last-16 goalless draw in Melbourne.
Rapinoe, 38, ranks among the most successful players of her generation and announced before the tournament she would be retiring at the end of the season.
With the USA leading 3-2 on penalties on a tension-filled night, substitute Rapinoe missed her spot-kick before Sophia Smith and Kelley O'Hara also failed to score in the shootout.
When Lina Hurtig converted the decisive penalty by the finest of margins, eliminating the four-time world champions, Rapinoe was overcome with emotion.
The Olympic gold medal winner hoisted up her shirt in an attempt to hide her face.
Ten minutes after the game, the television cameras picked out Rapinoe being consoled by team-mate Lynn Williams after the 2019 Ballon d'Or winner's dream of ending her USA career on a high were dashed.
"This is like a sick joke," said Rapinoe. "For me personally, I'm just like, this is dark comedy. I missed a penalty."
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Megan Rapinoe is the Ruth Bader Ginsberg of women’s soccer. She stayed too long and screwed everything up for her sycophants.
That photo nails it— just a wee bit too self-satisfied... Good Lord.
I have NEVER rooted for US women’s soccer with the obnoxious lesbian Megan Rapinoe on the team! It would be better if Russia wins!
Rapinoe’s performance in this last game proves me right! And this shambolic loss is a just end to her career!!!!
Shoulda had more trannies. Why would they put women on a women’s soccer team? What were they thinking?!
Little girl boy sezzzzz what???
She is nothing.
Good riddance.
😢 cry freak cry
Party time 🍺
Cry harder carpet munching loser.
BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!
“After 17 years of putting herself on the line for the Stars and Stripes”
That never happened.
It is she herself who is a sick joke.
Not much to like about this hideous Bull Dyke.
Maybe she can get a gig promoting Budweiser.
BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!
She HATES the USA and is the absolutely worst spokesperson we could ever have. Screw the women's soccer team for their horribly un-American behavior. Good riddance to the purple-hair lesbo freak.
I never once recall her putting herself "on the line" for America. She's a filthy, self-absorbed bitch who should move to a place more to her liking -- North Korea.
Two missed penalty shots by two loud dykes.
BBC: “herself on the line for the Stars and Stripes”
The sun never sets on the British propaganda empire.
This guy always thought too highly of himself.
Oh yes the BBC....
https://nypost.com/2022/07/15/bbc-presenter-eilidh-barbour-england-soccer-team-too-white/
Now that Rapinho has destroyed the women’s team, the freak will celebrate by going to a bathhouse with “her” wife, ala the Beltway Snipers, John Muhammad and Lee Malvo.
Missing the Well, Bye! Gif
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