'I feel like us just being athletes, us just being at the pinnacle of our game, is kind of a protest in a way and is sort of defiant in and of itself,' Rapinoe says
It wasn't just the fact that they were winning that earned them scores of new fans, co-captain, it's that the U.S. women's national soccer team"brought every slice of America to the party" on the way to World Cup victory.
"I just feel it’s so much more than soccer at this point," Rapinoe said."We’ve mobilized the soccer fans and the sort of casual fan now, people are watching it because they think that we’re changing the world. And they’re inspired by us on the field to do what we’re doing off the field in their own lives."
The U.S. national men's soccer team has never won a FIFA World Cup in its almost 100-year history and did not qualify for last year's tournament. Megan Rapinoe of the U.S. lifts the World Cup trophy following her team's victory against the Netherlands in Lyon, France on July 7.
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