{"id":291190,"date":"2023-09-24T23:35:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T23:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/?p=291190"},"modified":"2023-09-24T23:35:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T23:35:19","slug":"megan-rapinoe-stays-silent-during-anthem-at-final-uswnt-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/soccer\/megan-rapinoe-stays-silent-during-anthem-at-final-uswnt-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan Rapinoe stays silent during anthem at final USWNT match"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Megan Rapinoe captains the United States in her final match for the national team&#8230; but she does not sing during the national anthem<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rapinoe said in a 2019 interview that she would &#8216;never sing the anthem again&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>She was named captain for her final match ever for the Stars and Stripes\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>DailyMail.com provides all the latest international sports news\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Megan Rapinoe has not been singing the national anthem for years &#8211; a practice she started as part of her protest against racial inequality. On Sunday, the last time she took the field for the United States, that didn&#8217;t change.<\/p>\n<p>Rapinoe was named captain for the team and started for the United States in the final game of her illustrious and at times controversial career.<\/p>\n<p>Her captaincy is partially an ode to her career coming to an end and it&#8217;s partially a formality: the USA almost always gives the armband to players celebrating their 200th cap, an accomplishment Rapinoe earned at the 2023 FIFA Women&#8217;s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Walking out onto the pitch at Chicago&#8217;s Soldier Field, Rapinoe had a moment of honor before the crowd where her immediate family and her fianc\u00e9e &#8211; retired WNBA legend Sue Bird &#8211; greeted her.<\/p>\n<p>After the pomp and the circumstance, Rapinoe stood with a brave face and did not sing as the American national anthem played.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/24\/23\/75790025-12555897-image-m-19_1695592851520.jpg\" height=\"540\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Megan Rapinoe stood silent as she captained the United States in her farewell match Sunday<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/24\/23\/75790019-12555897-image-a-17_1695592803715.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Rapinoe&#8217;s final match for the USA &#8211; the end of an illustrious and controversial career<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/24\/22\/75790021-12555897-image-a-16_1695592796287.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>She was honored before kickoff &#8211; being greeted by her family and her fianc\u00e9e, Sue Bird<\/p>\n<p>Very few of her teammates joined her &#8211; a practice that was been scrutinized extensively by conservative pundits and media across the country during this summer&#8217;s World Cup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But that criticism was hardly ever heard when the US men&#8217;s team stayed stoic during their World Cup in 2022, nor was it voiced when the USA baseball team was silent at the 2023 World Baseball Classic.<\/p>\n<p>Rather, a lot of that criticism has been voiced because of the activism of this team and, in particular, Rapinoe.<\/p>\n<p>She previously said in an interview with Yahoo Sports in 2019 that she would &#8216;probably never sing the national anthem again&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s in part due to her protests for racial equality &#8211; which included her becoming the first white athlete to kneel while it played.<\/p>\n<p>Rapinoe initially made that decision in support of the protests being done by NFL player Colin Kaepernick.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12555897\/Megan-Rapinoe-captains-United-States-final-match-national-team-does-not-sing-national-anthem.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megan Rapinoe captains the United States in her final match for the national team&#8230; but she does not sing during the national anthem Rapinoe said in a 2019 interview that she would &#8216;never sing the anthem again&#8217;\u00a0 She was named captain for her final match ever for the Stars and Stripes\u00a0 DailyMail.com provides all the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Megan Rapinoe stays silent during anthem at final USWNT match - Sports Life Tale<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/soccer\/megan-rapinoe-stays-silent-during-anthem-at-final-uswnt-match\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Megan Rapinoe stays silent during anthem at final USWNT match - Sports Life Tale\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Megan Rapinoe captains the United States in her final match for the national team&#8230; 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