Megan Rapinoe’s message after protests by NWSL players in national anthem

It is the sports image in the United States of the day. In the first professional sports league that has restarted in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic in the country, the players of the teams of the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL), North Carolina Courage y Portland Thorns, knelt during the national anthem, in protest against racial violence.

A demonstration that was held by the footballer Megan Rapinoe, world champion in France 2019 and one of the promoters of the movement Black Lives Matter (Black lives matter), who used his social networks to congratulate his colleagues for demonstrating the way they did.

“You love watching it. You love to see these women using their voices, demanding better for America, and for black people and people of color.“, affirmed the player.

In this sense, the two-time world champion added that what was done by both teams was “kneel down by Colin Kapernick and Black Lives Matter”, to then share a statement from the squads, which indicated that “We kneel today to protest racial injustice, police brutality, and systematic racism against black people and people of color in the United States”.

Despite this support, Rapinoe will not play the Challenge Cup with his team, OL Reign, and his coach Farid Benstiti He explained that the reason is his insecurity in the face of the Coronavirus pandemic and the measures taken by the League.