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."
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Rapinoe choked.
She then burst out laughing
Then, she burst into tears knowing that, like Dylan Mulvaney, her sponsorship prospects took a very big hit
AMF.
She didn’t just miss her kik, she completely missed the net
This commercial didn’t age well: https://twitter.com/paddypower/status/1688167426762924034?s=46&t=CN7WdzTvAPdE9J8Ed8alfg
There were 16 teams left in the tournament…out of 32.
No one scored in the game, thus goalless, so it went to a penalty shot “kick off”.
Is listening to ABBA mandatory though?…
She should stay off social media and go to a tropical island for a month or two.
Good job Sweden!
Sorry Megan, you’re an “athlete”, to put it in a baseball vernacular, sometimes you have a four hit game with a couple of doubles and three runs scored. Another night you might go oh for four with three strikeouts and an infield popup. Be honest, you simply weren’t good enough.
Oh, please. She did nothing "for the Stars and Stripes" - and everything for her own aggrandizement.
Suck it, Rapinoe.
” Didn’t USSF bring them into parity pay with the guys?”
I believe that is correct even though they don’t generate near the income as the men. But now the women are generating the same results as the men’s team, so there is that.
Yessssssssssssssss!
That’s just good stuff. I want a purple velvet onesie now…
she will be richly awarded by our leftist media...probably get to be an anchor on some sports show...
didn’t she pose nude with her lover? might be evidence there
She’s done nothing for America ever. She’s greedy for unearned credit, a so-so player in a worthless sport and let’s not forget, an ugly bull-dyke b-ch. Nothing more worthless than an angry unattractive female - metaphysically amd biologically should not exist.
The replays of Megan Rapinoe’s miss will get far far more views than the game ever could.
Goodbye loser megan. I am glad to see subway still suffering because of you. I did not go to subway just yesterday because that company hired lesbian megan.
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